Add up "My Dropbox" in Your Windows 7 Start Menu

Over actuality at How-To Geek, we’re huge admirers of Dropbox, the amazingly fast online book accompany utility, but we’d be alike happier if we could natively add it to the Windows 7 Start Menu, area it belongs. And today, that’s what we’ll do.
Yep, that’s right. You can add it to the Alpha Menu… application a asinine drudge to the Libraries affection and renaming the Recorded TV library to a altered name. It’s not a absolute solution, but you can admission your Dropbox binder this way and it aloof seems to accord there.
First things first, arch into the Customize Alpha Card console by right-clicking on the alpha card and application Properties, again accomplish abiding that Recorded TV is set to “Display as a link”.
Next, right-click on Recorded TV, accept Rename, and again change it to article abroad like My Dropbox.
Now you’ll appetite to right-click on that button again, and accept Properties, area you’ll see the Library locations in the list… the accepted abstraction is that you appetite to abolish Recorded TV, and again add your Dropbox folder.
Oh, and you’ll apparently appetite to accomplish abiding to set “Optimize this library for” to “General Items”.
At this point, you can aloof bang on My Dropbox, and you’ll see, well, Your Dropbox! (no abruptness there).
Yeah, I know, it’s absolutely a hack. But it’s a actual advantageous one! Also, if you aren’t already application Dropbox, you should absolutely analysis it out—2 GB for free, attainable via the web from anywhere, and you can accompany to assorted desktops.

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