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Add Disk Management to Control Panel in Windows 10

How to Add Disk Management to Control Panel in Windows 10

Disk Management is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that allows managing a variety of options related to storage devices connected to your computer. It is already available in the Win + X menu (the right-click context menu of the Start button), and in Administrative tools\Computer Management. In addition to these options, you can also have it in the Control Panel, which is really useful if you prefer the classic tool over the modern Settings app.

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With Disk Management, you can perform a huge number of administrative tasks on connected disk devices. It supports both external and internal drives.

Disk Management Drive Properties Windows 10

Disk Management allows you:

And more. Disk Management is a reliable and useful tool to maintain the storage space of your computer.

In Windows 10, Microsoft is moving everything from the classic Control Panel to the Modern app called "Settings". It has already inherited many options which were exclusively available in the Control Panel. If you prefer using the classic Control panel, you might want to add some extra applets to it to make it more useful.

In Windows, it is easy to add custom items to the Control Panel. Check out the following blog post:

How to add anything you want to Control Panel

In the following image, you will see dozens of custom items added to the Control Panel which are not normally present.

Control Panel

Here's how to add Disk Management to the classic Control Panel.

To Add Disk Management to Control Panel in Windows 10,

  1. Download the following Registry files (the ZIP archive): Download Registry Files
  2. Extract them to any folder you like. You can place them right on the Desktop.
  3. Close the Control Panel if you have it open.
  4. Double-click the file Add Disk Management To Control Panel.reg and confirm the operation.
  5. Now, open the Control Panel  and go to Hardware and sound.Add Disk Management To Control Panel

You are done. You now have Disk Management in the Control Panel. It is also visible in the 'Large icons' and 'Small icons' view.

Disk Management In Control Panel

Use the included Remove Disk Management From Control Panel.reg file to remove the applet from the Control Panel.

That's it.

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Author: Sergey Tkachenko

Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer who started Winaero back in 2011. On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube.

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