Windows File Explorer Sidebar Shortcut for Insync

I have a request – In Windows 10, I really like the sidebar shortcuts to various sync engines (One Drive, Dropbox, and Box to name a few), but Insync does not seem to have this. I would like to have this as an option. I found that Google Drive does not have this out of the box, but there is a solution with a registry addition as seen in the code pasted below. It is necessary to hard code the file location into the TargetFolderPathvalue, but other than that, this works perfectly. Is it possible to use this code to also make a shortcut to insync in the same way? I would LOVE that!!!

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}]
@=“Google Drive”
“System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree”=dword:00000001
“SortOrderIndex”=dword:00000042

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,59,00,53,00,54,00,45,00,4D,00,52,00,4F,00,4F,00,54,00,
25,00,5C,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6D,00,33,00,32,00,5C,00,73,00,68,
00,65,00,6C,00,6C,00,33,00,32,00,2E,00,64,00,6C,00,6C,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}\ShellFolder]
“FolderValueFlags”=dword:00000028
“Attributes”=dword:f080004d

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}]
@=“Google Drive”
“System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree”=dword:00000001
“SortOrderIndex”=dword:00000042

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,59,00,53,00,54,00,45,00,4D,00,52,00,4F,00,4F,00,54,00,
25,00,5C,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6D,00,33,00,32,00,5C,00,73,00,68,
00,65,00,6C,00,6C,00,33,00,32,00,2E,00,64,00,6C,00,6C,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}\ShellFolder]
“FolderValueFlags”=dword:00000028
“Attributes”=dword:f080004d

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}\DefaultIcon]
@=“C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Drive\googledrivesync.exe,0”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}\Instance]
“CLSID”="{0E5AAE11-A475-4c5b-AB00-C66DE400274E}"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}\Instance\InitPropertyBag]
“Attributes”=dword:00000011
“TargetFolderPath”="%USERPROFILE%\Google Drive"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
“{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}]
@=“Google Drive”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}\DefaultIcon]
@=“C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Drive\googledrivesync.exe,0”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}\Instance]
“CLSID”="{0E5AAE11-A475-4c5b-AB00-C66DE400274E}"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{81539FE6-33C7-4CE7-90C7-1C7B8F2F2D41}\Instance\InitPropertyBag]
“Attributes”=dword:00000011
“TargetFolderPath”="%USERPROFILE%\Google Drive"

@dipesh is this something we’re considering?

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@jaduenas @adachan Yes, we will try to incorporate it soon.

Thanks

Excellent! I look forward to this integration! Please let me know when the feature is available and I am happy to test it for you.