Add “Cleanup Disk” Shortcut to Right-Click Menu on Windows 7

Accessing the disk cleanup tool can take many clicks as default. With this quick tip you can add a link to your drives right-click menu.

Instructions

  • Open the start menu and in the search box type regedit
regedit
  • With the registry editor open search for the following key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell
  • Create a new key called Disk Cleanup
  • Create another new key under the previous one called command
  • Open the new key and change the default value to
cleanmgr.exe /d %1
cleanmgr
  • Now Test your right click (you can change “Disk Cleanup” if you want)
disk cleanup

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