Windows 10: Navigation Pane Hierarchy - Make Google Drive appear like OneDrive

Hello,


It looks like many people are struggling with the navigation pane, myself included. All I'm trying to do it make the google drive appear in the same way as dropbox and onedrive in file explorer. Picture below; a bonus would be changing the order too.


The maybe solutions I've found involve modifying the registry, which seems unwise unless you have skills and knowledge.


I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling google drive to see if I missed an option with no success.


Thanks for any replies in advance.




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OneDrive missing from Windows Explorer navigation pane

When I first cleaned installed Windows 10 v1809 on my machine I applied a Group Policy setting for OneDrive to Prevent the Usage of OneDrive for File Storage to ENABLED. Of course, that would remove the OneDrive from the left side navigation pane within Windows File Explorer. But now, I set the Group Policy back to NOT CONFIGURED, rebooted the machine and the OneDrive is still missing from the the left side of the Windows File Explorer navigation pane as shown in my image. I even performed the command GPUPDATE /FORCE.

My laptop is a standalone, not part of a Domain.

I tried all the things listed from the article below but with no luck. I also was able to sign in with my OneDrive account and that was all fine and OneDrive appeared on the File Explorer pane. But once I UNLINKED my account from OneDrive, the OneDrive was still missing.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...8-b74545c7f4da

Even if no Group Policies are set, and even NOT signing into OneDrive, by default, the OneDrive icon should still appear on the left side navigation pane when launching Windows File Explorer.

And suggestions?

My guess is to recreate my user profile, but I don't really want to do that now.

 

Add or Remove Google Drive from Navigation Pane in Windows 10  


Hey Rob,

The link in my last post pointed to one of the articles about the overlay priority problem. I mentioned it only because I saw that you had Dropbox installed and I understand that your batch file does not touch any of the registry keys associated with icon overlays.

However for me this is not the issue since I do not have Dropbox installed and furthermore I have totally removed OneDrive from this Windows 10 setup. My issue is simple. If I add Google Drive to the navigation pane using your batch file or Brink's reg files the the blue syncing icon overlay never appear for me. If I then remove Google Drive from the navigation pane then the blue syncing icon overlay return. The green check mark synced overlay is unaffected either way.

Side note: I do have one Windows 10 setup in a different partition where I have Dropbox and Google Drive both installed. After making sure that Google Drive is sorted at the top of the list in the shell overlay keys both Dropbox and Google Drive display the correct overlays on the icons as long as I do not place Google Drive in the navigation pane.

For what it is worth here are the reg queries that you asked for:

 

Add or Remove Google Drive from Navigation Pane in Windows 10  

Hi Rob,

I really like your solution. I have found one small problem and I am not faulting your batch file. The problem most likely is with Google Drive and in all likelihood beyond my expertise to fix.

The round blue syncing icon overlay never appears when I have Google Drive in the navigation pane. The green check mark icon overlay seems to be working okay. If I remove Google Drive from the navigation pane then the blue syncing icon overlay comes back.