Roam (share) your user profile with Dropbox

If you have more than one computer, you may agree with me that times to times you wish to have your desktop roam over the multiple computer you owned. Well....., you can with Dropbox.

Dropbox is a folder synchronization software over the internet.It's create a folder named Dropbox in your User profile folder (C:\Users\"login name"\Dropbox). Whatever you drop or creates in this folder with be sync over the internet and all devices you have Dropbox installed.

The following steps are tested on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Note there is a limitation for Dropbox for 2 GB of space. If you are concerned about privacy or security of your files, DO NOT FOLLOW THE FOLLOWING STEPS.
For each computer you need to follow these steps below.

From now you are on your own!!

1. Install Dropbox
2. Login or sign up to Dropbox
3. After successful login, open the Dropbox folder, if it is not open
4. Create a folder within Dropbox. 
5. Name this folder as RoamingProfile
6. Copy your current desktop folder (I assume the location is C:\Users\"login name"\Desktop) to the  RoamingProfile folder (in this tutorial C:\Users\"login name"\Dropbox\RoamingProfile) 
7. If you still did not have exceed the limit of Dropbox, you may copy Documents to the RoamingProfile like desktop
8. If you still did not have exceed the limit of Dropbox, you may do the same for music
9. If you still did not have exceed the limit of Dropbox, you may do the same for pictures 
10. If you still did not have exceed the limit of Dropbox, you may do the same for videos
11. Search and open regedit.exe from the start menu.
12. Browse to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders and make e backup (VERY IMPORTANT)
• Right click
• select export
• When prompt select the location and type a name ShellFolders for the backup reg file.
13. Modify the string value for Desktop to C:\Users\"login name"\Dropbox\RoamingProfile\Desktop
14. If you have copied the Documents in step 7, modify the string value for Personal to C:\Users\"login name"\Dropbox\RoamingProfile\Documents
15. If you have copied the Music in step 8, modify the string value for My Music to C:\Users\"login name"\Dropbox\RoamingProfile\Music
16. If you have copied the Pictures in step 9, modify the string value for My Pictures to C:\Users\"login name"\Dropbox\RoamingProfile\Pictures 
17. If you have copied the Video  in step 10, modify the string value for My video to C:\Users\"login name"\Dropbox\RoamingProfile\Videos
18. Browse to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders and make e backup by exporting this key and it subkeys and value
• Right click
• select export
• When prompt select the location and type a name UserShellFolders for the backup reg file.
19. Repeat step 13 to 17 for the User Shell Folder key
20. Now restart  your computer 
21. If something when wrong you will need to double click the reg files you create at step 12 and 18 and restart your computer
22. For computer space you may delete the content of the previous profile directory (C:\Users\"login name") for desktop, documents, music, pictures, videos. Before delete make sure that the folder was copied to roaming profile. If not, DO NOT DELETE IT.
23. Go to next machine and repeat step one to 22.

I hope you will enjoy your roaming profile over the internet