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30 January 2008 109 views 4 Comments



Cool XP tips & tricks: Sutomatic defrag (click to enlarge)

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.


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4 Comments »

  • Eerik said:

    Very nice!

    # 6 February 2008 at 2:19 pm
  • Top 5 Windows XP system tools | Cool Windows XP tips & tricks said:

    [...] Choose the hard drive you want and press Defragment. Depending on how fragmented the drive is, this might take a long time. It’s a good idea to leave your PC on for the night to do this. It’s also a good idea to automatically defrag files. [...]

    # 24 April 2008 at 4:17 pm
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    # 4 September 2008 at 5:31 pm
  • How To Speed Up Your Windows XP | Cool Windows XP tips & tricks said:

    [...] Defragmenting your drives can make a big difference in your computer’s speed. Defragmenting places files physically closer on the hard drive, making it easier and faster for the hard drive to read these files and write new ones. It is a good idea to defragment your hard drive regularily, so it alway stays optimal. I posted a tutorial for an automatic defragment link here: http://www.xptricks.net/windows/xp/2008/01/cool-xp-tips-tricks-automatically-defrag-drives/ [...]

    # 25 May 2010 at 11:05 pm

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