Complete Solution

How to Add Defragment to the Right-Click Menu for a Drive in Windows or Vista? With a simple registry hack we can do just that.When you would apply the hack manually or by downloading it, after that you will see a new item on the right-click menu for your drives. This hack will start up the command line interface version of the Disk Defragmenter (after accepting the User Account Control prompt)







Which will start up the command-line version of Disk Defragmenter (after accepting the UAC prompt)







Manual Registry Hack



Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key:



HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell









Create a new key under shell called “runas”, and then set the (Default) value to “Defragment”. If you want to hide this menu item behind the Shift key right-click menu, then add a new string called Extended with no value.







Next, you’ll need to create a key called “command” and set the default value to the following, which is the command to run defrag with the default options but show verbose output.



defrag %1 -v



You can alternately choose from one of the other defrag switches here if you’d like.



Downloadable Registry Hack



Simply download, extract, and double-click on either AddDefragToDriveMenu.reg (for the regular menu) or AddDefragToExtendedDriveMenu.reg (to hide behind the Shift key). There’s also an included removal script that will remove either one.



Download AddDefragToDriveMenu Registry Hack

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