How to restore the new Win7 "briefcase" in Win8.1?

Briefcase is a function for offline data synchronization. It is natively supported in Win7 and previous XP systems. Users can save the modified file to a USB flash drive or connect two computers to each other. "It is possible to automatically synchronize the latest improvements to this file. But in the era of Win8.1/Win10, Microsoft considered the "briefcase" to be outdated, and removed the feature, especially the strong intervention of OneDrive in Windows10, even squeezed out. The traditional "briefcase" living space. But if it is not connected to the Internet, it is nonsense to synchronize through OneDrive. At this time, the "briefcase" can still play a role.


Actually This feature has not completely disappeared, we can retrieve it by adding a registry item. The method is very simple, copy and paste the following code into Notepad, save as "all files (*.*)", file extension Named ".reg" (as shown below, the file name can be free). This method is also applicable to Windows8/Windows 8.1 system. Before adding, you can use the soft media cube (click to download) Clean up the master to back up the registry file, just in case.

The code is as follows (not including the top and bottom "=" dividers):
=========== ================================================================================= Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\BrIEfcase\\ShellNew]
"IconPath"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65 ,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\\
74,00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00 ,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,\\
00,79,00,6e,00,63,00,75,00,69,00,2e ,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,30,00,00,00
"ItemName"=hex(2):40,00,25,00,53,00, 79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,\\
6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,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,00,2c,00,\\
2d,00,36,00,34, 00,39,00,33,00,00,00
"Directory"=""
"Handler"="{85BBD920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINE\\SOFTWARE\\ Classes\\BrIEfcase\\ShellNew\\Config]
"IsFolder"=""
"NoExtension"= ""
====================================================== =====
Double-click to run the file, you can add the above content to the registry. Restart the file explorer Explorer.exe (software Rubik's Cube (click to download) can be easily launched), right click on the desktop → New, "Briefcase" will appear, as shown below -


To cancel this new item, you can save and execute the following code in the same way (the file name needs to be different from the previous one, the extension is unchanged):

======== ========================================================================== Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Classes\\BrIEfcase\\ShellNew]