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This is provided “as-is”. I can not guarantee it will work for you or work at all. However, I have added it to my machine; Windows 10 64-bit.
I found my base files on winhelponline.com. You may go there and search for “Pin Google Drive”. I saved the download package and edited the text for the 64-bit file in notepad.
I then went to guidgen.com for a new GUID and and replaced all instances of 81539FE6
 in the reg file with the one that I generated.
Next I used a text to hex converter at online-toolz.com to decipher the paths (%USERPROFILE%\Google Drive) and replaced them with the default paths to my Nextcloud installation (%USERPROFILE%\Nextcloud).
Replaced the icon: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Drive\googledrivesync.exe,0 with C:\Program Files (x86)\Nextcloud\nextcloud.exe,0
Then I did a find and replace on the cloud name @=“Google Drive” to @=“Nextcloud”

I left everything else the same. Merge and it shows instantly in the Windows Navigation Pane, complete with icon.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}]
@=“Nextcloud”
“System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree”=dword:00000001
“SortOrderIndex”=dword:00000042

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}\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{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}\ShellFolder]
“FolderValueFlags”=dword:00000028
“Attributes”=dword:f080004d

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}]
@=“Nextcloud”
“System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree”=dword:00000001
“SortOrderIndex”=dword:00000042

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}\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{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}\ShellFolder]
“FolderValueFlags”=dword:00000028
“Attributes”=dword:f080004d

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}\DefaultIcon]
@=“C:\Program Files (x86)\Nextcloud\nextcloud.exe,0”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}\Instance]
“CLSID”=“{0E5AAE11-A475-4c5b-AB00-C66DE400274E}”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}\Instance\InitPropertyBag]
“Attributes”=dword:00000011
“TargetFolderPath”=hex(2):25,00,55,00,53,00,45,00,52,00,50,00,52,00,4f,00,46,
00,49,00,4c,00,45,00,25,00,5c,00,4e,00,65,00,78,00,74,00,63,00,6c,00,6f,00,
75,00,64,00,00,00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
“{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}”=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}]
@=“Nextcloud”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}\DefaultIcon]
@=“C:\Program Files (x86)\Nextcloud\nextcloud.exe,0”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}\Instance]
“CLSID”=“{0E5AAE11-A475-4c5b-AB00-C66DE400274E}”

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}\Instance\InitPropertyBag]
“Attributes”=dword:00000011
“TargetFolderPath”=hex(2):25,00,55,00,53,00,45,00,52,00,50,00,52,00,4f,00,46,
00,49,00,4c,00,45,00,25,00,5c,00,4e,00,65,00,78,00,74,00,63,00,6c,00,6f,00,
75,00,64,00,00,00

I then made a removal tool. All you do for that is replace the GUID in the ‘undo’ file with the one that you generated:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Wow6432Node\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}]

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\HideDesktopIcons\NewStartPanel]
“{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}”=-

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace{298a2f6b-3452-4971-812a-a2216510e980}]

I’ve tried both files on my machine with no problems. I hope this works for you!