Anyone know a fix for google drive in win 8.1?

I did a clean install of 8 then installed 8.1 and now when I installed
google drive the icon won;t show in the lower right corner or windows
explorer either......... I tried re-installing it, google has a folder
for it in the C:drive, it just doesn't do anything (the desktop app)

any ideas or workarounds?

Thanks in ad-cyrus-vance

On 11/2/2013 11:23 PM, Muse Nette wrote:
I did a clean install of 8 then installed 8.1 and now when I installed
google drive the icon won;t show in the lower right corner or windows
explorer either......... I tried re-installing it, google has a folder
for it in the C:drive, it just doesn't do anything (the desktop app)

any ideas or workarounds?

Thanks in ad-cyrus-vance


I was able to google the solution! from a google group participant...

"I FIXED IT!!!1
Here's an explanation as to the user's limit of 11 icon overlays:

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/the-ov...s-in-windows-7

The overlay icons are all defined under:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers

After taking a backup of this part of my registry, I deleted the icons I
don't use, quit Google Drive, restarted explorer, and reopened Google
Drive - and the icons showed up!
In order to get the number of overlay icons in the registry down to 11,
I had to delete one called EnhancedStorageShell and two Dropbox ones.
To find out what icon each one actually is:
Search the registry for the hex string inside the key's value
Open the key inside the result (InProcServer32) and copy the value (the
DLL path)
Create a new folder on the desktop
Right-click - Properties - Customize - Change Icon
Paste the DLL path into the address field and hit Enter
Note what icon(s) are displayed
Good luck!"


In my case I deleted Sugarsync since I uninstalled that and Revo didn't
quite get all the leftovers, plus one other unneeded one
(EnhancedStorageShell)

Amazing how fast one can find the answer to a problem if you do a little
research.