Automatically Defrag Drives with a New Context Menu Item

Create a new Registry import file named context_defrag.inf in Notepad (be sure to save it with the Save as type set to All Files and not Text Documents) and place the following text inside: 

; context_defrag.INF 

; Adds Defrag to the right click context menu in Windows XP 

[version] 

signature="$CHICAGO$" 

[DefaultInstall] 

AddReg=AddMe 

[AddMe] 

HKCR,"Drive\Shell\Defrag\command",,,"DEFRAG.EXE %1" 

Then, right-click and choose Install. This will add a context menu to XP that allows you to automatically defrag drives, using the command line version of the built-in defragmentation utility. To use it, navigate to a drive in My Computer, right-click, and choose Defrag. A command line window will appear, and that drive will be defragged. When it's complete, the window just disappears. 

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