Windows 10: Replace OneDrive icon in explorer with Google Drive

Anyway to do this? I don't use Onedrive at all, i do use Google Drive, i just want to replace that shortcut to lead to google drive instead of onedrive? maybe editing through regedit? Thanks everyone.





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Missing OneDrive in Windows 10 upgrade

I also am missing OneDrive. Trying to open the folder, or even save to it, in File Explorer starts the wizard to connect to my MS OneDrive account, but it crashes at the file-location verification step--EVERY TIME. So I have no icon to set the folders I
want to sync, no anything. An hour and a half online with support was useless, the tech wound up telling me, "It appears the OneDrive application is not working correctly."

YA THINK?

No solution whatsoever.

So I'm deciding whether to use Google Drive or Dropbox to replace Onedrive, which apparently MS cannot, to this day, figure out (I've had problems with it in 8.1 continually).

To date I have seen no posted solution to this problem.

 

Icon Overlays less than 15

This problem has existed for a very long time without a fix. Considering all of the cloud drive options available, I urge Microsoft to take a look at finally fixing this problem. It also effects OneDrive.

See this article dated AUGUST 9, 2016.

THE BATTLE TO OWN WINDOWS EXPLORER SHELL OVERLAY ICONS, OR WHY
YOUR ONEDRIVE GREEN TICKS HAVE STOPPED WORKING

I created a batch program to make edits for DropBox and Google Drive.

Icon Overlays Manager - Version 2018-02-28.bat

You can easily make changes to this for other sync drives.

 

I was also looking for this and my starting point was the known solution to hide the OneDrive Icon in the Explorer. So there had to be some more Options in the registry.
In the key

I found the entry "TargetKnownFolder" with value "{a52bba46-e9e1-435f-b3d9-28daa648c0f6}"





This could to be a reference to the actual Folder. So i was searching for this reference in the whole registry and found three entries.

The first is the only full path i found and i replaced it with my current Google Drive Folder path (D:\Google Drive)

The other two entries are similar and i replaced every value which had formerly the string "OneDrive" with "Google Drive" (I don't know if this is necessary)

After a restart, my Explorer Looks like this:





It is not yet perfect but it is what i wanted. And i guess it is what you was looking for.

More things to find out is how to replace the Icon and the displayed name.

 

At least it's something, thanks for the post.

 

Hi there,

I was just following your instructions when I found the following:

The first registry entry you posted
"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}"
contains a key (hope it's called key) called (default), the value is "One Drive". I renamed it to "Google Drive" et voila, my explorer now shows Google Drive as name of the folder instead of OneDrive.

Edit: And in the same folder there is a folder called "DefaultIcon", maybe this is the path to the icon. I will try this one.

Second edit: yeah, got it. I tried to change the "DefaultIcon" value to the path of a png file, which didn't work. But this did: "path-to-where-google-drive-is-installed\googledrivesync.exe,0"

 

the registry changes only last for about a minute when the system starts. Then the path in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders changes back, automatically, to '%USERPROFILE%\onedrive'

Anyway around this?