How to Add Disk Cleanup to the Right-Click Menu for a Drive
Using the Hack
After installation, you can simply right-click on a drive and choose “Disk Cleanup” from the menu:
If you are using Windows 7 or Vista, you’ll be asked whether you want to clean up your files or all files…
And then disk cleanup will begin:
Manual Registry Hack
Open up regedit 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 called “diskcleanup” and set the default value to “Disk Cleanup”. Then create another key underneath it called “command” and set the value to the following:
cleanmgr.exe /d %1
The change should be immediate, just right-click on the drive and you should see the new menu item.
Downloadable Registry Hack
Simply download, extract, and double-click on DiskCleanupDriveMenu.reg to enter the information into the registry. You can use the included RemoveDiskCleanupDriveMenu.reg file to reverse the changes.
Download DiskCleanupDriveMenu Registry Hack
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