Add or remove Nextcloud/OwnCloud icon to Explorer file navigation (like Dropbox/OneDrive/G-Drive) for a shortcut to your Nextcloud folder.

Nextcloud Icon Add.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; NOTE, this file uses a GUID generated here
; https://www.guidgenerator.com/online-guid-generator.aspx
; IF you are going to have multiple Nextcloud folders in your tree you
; will need to make a new GUID for each folder and find/replace the
; value "38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1" with your unique GUID

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\\{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}]
; Name of the folder, also see last line below
@="Nextcloud"
; Sort order, lower number for higher in list
"SortOrderIndex"=dword:00000040
; 1 for shown, 0 for not shown
"System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\\{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}\DefaultIcon]
; folder icon, pulled the Nextcloud favicon.ico from nextcloud.com
@="C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\Nextcloud\\favicon.ico"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\\{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}\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\\{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}\Instance]
"CLSID"="{0E5AAE11-A475-4c5b-AB00-C66DE400274E}"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\\{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}\Instance\InitPropertyBag]
"Attributes"=dword:00000011
; this is the folder we're pointing at
"TargetFolderPath"="C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\Nextcloud"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\\{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:f080004d
"FolderValueFlags"=dword:00000028

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}]
; Name of the folder again
@="Nextcloud"

Nextcloud Icon Remove.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

; NOTE, this file uses a GUID generated here
; https://www.guidgenerator.com/online-guid-generator.aspx
; IF you have multiple Nextcloud folders in your tree you will need to
; delete the GUID for each folder by find/replacing the value
; "38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1" with your unique GUID

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\\{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
"{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}"=-

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{38d6662b-09f4-4e73-bf61-b0e512ec41e1}]

If you are like me stuck with Windows 7 on your work laptop this will not work.

I had the problem upgrading from 2.5 to 2.6, I've made an updated version of this script here:

https://gist.github.com/Zelphy/d2f10d9229323c11ba751206c4fff909

Changes:

• Updated icon path (https://gist.github.com/realslacker/d4901a8295baf979c29dbb55d4e6e034#gistcomment-2774924)
• Dynamic username (no longer requires you to manually change the user name)

@Zelphy I don't think this is needed with 2.6... I'm now getting a Nextcloud icon in Explorer by default.