Friends, I want to right click on any vhd or vhdx file and compact it. I can do it in the cmd prompt, but I don't want to deal with the codes all the time. Is there any way to do this easily?
The codes I use;
diskpart
select vdisk file="D:\test.vhdx"
attach vdisk readonly
compact vdisk
detach vdisk
exit
exit
Hi, perhaps the easiest way might be to create that as a script with a parameter (the path and file name) and I think you could possibly use Send to, with an appropriate addition to the Send to folder. I've never tried that with passing a parameter though.
Another way is to add the script to file context menus (possibly requiring SHIFT rt click so it's not always an available option).
You can do that quite readily with Easy Context Menu (free) by Sordum Tools.
It is actually quite complicated recovering space in virtual hard drives. Comiacting does not work very well without defragging vhd which can take ages.
There are various other ways of doing it but easiest way is to clone an existing vhd to a new blank vhd, deleting old vhd an renaming new one.
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