How to add Disk Management to Windows Control Panel

Today we’re going to take a look at how to add Disk Management to Control Panel in Windows 10, 8 and 7.

1. Download the ready-made file “Disk Management” to add “Disk Management” to the control panel and go to step 5 of the instructions, or create it by following the instructions below.

In the search bar or in the “Run” menu (run by pressing the Win + R keys) enter notepad and press the Enter key.

2. In Notepad, paste the following text:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{FC3797EF-58EC-41C8-BAD9-E06240DC5ABD}]
@ = “Disk Management”
“InfoTip” = “”
“System.ControlPanel.Category” = ”2”
“System.ControlPanel.EnableInSafeMode” = ”3”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{FC3797EF-58EC-41C8-BAD9-E06240DC5ABD}DefaultIcon]
@ = ”% WinDir% System32 dmdskres.dll, -344 ″

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{FC3797EF-58EC-41C8-BAD9-E06240DC5ABD}ShellOpencommand]
@ = “Mmc.exe diskmgmt.msc”

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerControlPanelNameSpace{FC3797EF-58EC-41C8-BAD9-E06240DC5ABD}]
@ = “Disk Management”

3. Go to “File” and click on “Save As”.

4. Choose any location to save the file (the main thing is that you can find it later) => in the “File name” line, enter any name you think of, just change the extension to reg (see picture). In our example, we name the file Disk Management.reg and click on “Save”.

5. Open the saved file, click on “Yes” in the window that appears and “OK” in the next one.

6. If in the control panel instead of “Disk Management” there are hieroglyphs – in the search bar or in the “Run” menu enter regedit and press Enter => follow the path HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTCLSID{FC3797EF-58EC-41C8-BAD9-E06240DC5ABD} => open the parameter (Default) => in the “Value” field enter Disk management and click on “OK”.