I’ve spent the last 20 minutes adding the option of “My Dropbox” to the start menu on XP. So here’s a quick guide on how to do it.
Firstly, it seems that you can only place the option below the Run option, unless you want it to take the place of My Pictures for example.
To do this, you’ll need to do some minor registry editing. This was my source, I changed the registry code to:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}] @=”My Dropbox” “InfoTip”=”Opens the My Dropbox folder” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\DefaultIcon] @=”C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAMEHERE\Application Data\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox_101.ico” [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}\Instance\InitPropertyBag] “method”=”ShellExecute” “Command”=”My Dropbox” “Param1″=”C:\\Documents and Settings\\USERNAMEHERE\\My Documents\\My Dropbox”Note that you need to change the bold tags to your username. Also to generate the Dropbox icon, I downloaded IconExtract and selected the Dropbox.exe running process, scrolled down the presenetd list of icons and picked out the one I liked most. Ensure that the icon file path and filename above mirrors what you want. I decided to put my icon where the dropbox exe is hidden, remember in XP that the Application Data folder is hidden by default, so you’ll have to go into settings to turn on “Show hidden and system files/folders” or paste in the folder’s path and hit enter. Another note is, if you sort out the icon later, explorer.exe may need restarting if you just see a missing icon image.
