Windows 10: How to add Disk Cleanup to right-click context menu of hard drives in Windows 10

This post will help you with how to add Disk Cleanup to right-click menu of hard drives in Windows 10. By adding this option, you can open Disk Cleanup for a particular drive with just two mouse clicks and then free up space for that drive, delete temporary files, etc. By default, you have to open Disk Cleanup and then select the drive for which you want to perform the cleaning process. But, when this feature is enabled, you can use Disk Cleanup for a hard drive directly.



Add Disk Cleanup to context menu of hard drives


A Registry trick lets you add Disk Cleanup to the right-click context menu of all hard drives. Let’s check the steps:

1. Open Registry Editor
2. Access shell Registry key
3. Create Windows.CleanUp Registry key
4. Create CommandStateSync String Value
5. Create ExplorerCommandHandler String Value
6. Add {9cca66bb-9c78-4e59-a76f-a5e9990b8aa0} in its Value data
7. Press OK button
8. Create Icon name String Value
9. Add %SystemRoot%\System32\cleanmgr.exe,-104 in its Value data
10. Press OK button
11. Create ImpliedSelectionModel DWORD value
12. Select Hexadecimal option in the Base section
13. Add 1 in its Value data
14. Press OK button
15. Close Registry Editor.

At first, open the Registry Editor window. For this, write regedit in the Search box and use the Enter key.

In Registry Editor, access the shell name Registry key. The path is:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell



Access right-click menu of shell key, go to the New menu and use the Key option. This will create a new key. You need to rename that key with Windows.CleanUp, just like visible in the above screenshot.

Now, on the right-hand part of Windows.CleanUp key, create a String Value using right-click menu, and set its name to CommandStateSync.



Create another String Value, and rename it with ExplorerCommandHandler. Double-click on ExplorerCommandHandler String Value and you will see a small box.

There, add {9cca66bb-9c78-4e59-a76f-a5e9990b8aa0} in the Value data box. Press the OK button.



Again, create a new String Value with an Icon name. Double-click on that value and a box will visible.

There, add %SystemRoot%\System32\cleanmgr.exe,-104 in its Value data box, and press the OK button.

This will show the Disk Cleanup icon in the right-click menu of hard drives.



Now create a new DWORD value using right-click context menu and rename it to ImpliedSelectionModel.



Double-click on that DWORD value and a box will pop up. In that box, first, select the Hexadecimal option (as visible in the above screenshot) available under the Base section. After that, put 1 in the Value data field. Finally, press the OK button.

That’s all! Open File Explorer and right-click on a hard drive. You will notice that the Cleanup option is visible. Clicking on that option will open the Disk Cleanup window for that particular drive.

To remove the Disk Cleanup option from the right-click context menu of hard drives, just follow the above steps, and delete Windows.CleanUp Registry key created by you.

Hope it helps.

TIP: Did you know that the Command-line version of Disk Cleanup Utility offers more cleanup options?


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Hello Kelly,

It is possible that the issue could be hardware-related. We'd like to know if the hard drive is still being detected from the BIOS or Disk Management. To access Disk management, please follow the steps below:

1. From the Start Menu, right-click on the Computer icon and choose Manage from the context menu.
2. Click on Disk Management, which appears in the left-hand side under the heading Storage.
3. The list of the hard drives available is now be visible in the center of the window.

If you're able to find the hard disk from the list, you can try to create a partition on your hard disk. Please refer to this link:
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If you're unable to find the hard drive, it is possible that the hard drive is failing. I suggest that you contact the device manufacturer for further assistance.

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DISK CLEANUP

Hello,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

1. Which files are you trying to delete using disk clean up?
2. Which version of Windows are you currently using?

Please reply back with the information to the above questions in order to provide you with appropriate troubleshooting steps:



I understand that you are trying to free up memory using Disk Cleanup. If you are trying to delete files using disk cleanup on Windows 10, I suggest you to refer the following article on

Disk cleanup in Windows 10 for steps to perform disk clean up on your PC.



Hope it helps.



Sandeep Kumar M

Microsoft Community – Moderator

 

disk cleanup

Hi joysoder, to properly and safely delete any files not required by your system, run Disk Cleanup twice as explained below. Each time select everything in the list and delete them. Disk Cleanup will not suggest deleting anything that is not safe to delete
. . .

Open File Explorer

Click on your hard drive

On the Manage Tab, click Cleanup

Let Disk Cleanup do its initial scan

Select Everything in the list and choose Delete

Start Disk Cleanup again

Let Disk Cleanup do its initial scan

This time in the resulting dialog, click 'Cleanup System Files'

Let Disk Cleanup run another scan

Select Everything in the list and choose Delete