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Feature: Add the ability to open the Drive Defrag Menu via Files

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Description

### What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

The original Windows Explorer provides a way by the Properties menu on a drive to open the "Defragmentation and Optimization" tool. Files is (as far as I can see) unable to open that tool because it's not integrated (yet).

Since it'd be a simple context menu entry (or Properties menu tab) just linking to the `dfrgui.exe` laying in `%WinDir%\System32` it could be done quick and shouldn't break much.

### Requirements

- Discussing where the entry should be placed, either in only one place (context menu or Properties Menu w/ a new tab, or in both places)
- Implementing the feature according to the approved spec
- Testing if it works

### Files Version

4.0.0.0

### Windows Version

10.0.26120.5761

### Comments

I implemented a quick working mockup [in a branch of mine](https://github.com/Zagrthos/Files/commit/07dc6487284b04ff0ff66b9b801186b5e514a9f7) to show how it could look when it's implemented into the context menu (and to familiarize myself w/ the codebase a little):

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