Automatically defrag drives

I found an article on the web the other day about automatically defragmenting drives and thought that I might just as well post a tutorial about it here. Basically, this allows you to defrag any drive by right-clicking on it and choosing “defrag.”

To enable this, open notepad and paste the following code:

; 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″

Next save it as context_defrag.inf onto your desktop or basically anywhere… (Note: be sure to save it as All Files and not Text Documents!)

Right-click on it, choose Install and you’re ready to start defragmenting!

I believe the original article by Paul Thurrott is here.