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MmeMinty's avatar
MmeMinty
New member | Level 1
12 months ago

Disable sync status icons & context menu injection

These sync status icons Dropbox app is generating while running, and forcibly, slowly serving them to Explorer without asking, are annoying. The context menu options, injected only when Dropbox app is running, are even more annoying.

Status icons are significantly slowing down Explorer, and the context menu distortion messes with muscle memory. I'm catching myself turning off Dropbox entirely to avoid these, at which point it makes me consider if I shouldn't just switch to pCloud or something.

How to turn them off? A toggle, a registry key, hex editing the Dropbox binary, I don't care. I need a way.

For reference, pCloud:

 

desktop
sync
windows

5 Replies

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    12 months ago

    Unfortunately there is no way to do this. 

    There was a recent post about this you can see here.

    And a thread asking for upvotes etc. within the suggestions board here.

  • MmeMinty's avatar
    MmeMinty
    New member | Level 1
    12 months ago

    Thanks, I didn't see a thread about status icons so I created one, "Add toggle to disable status icons".

    And I guess I'm getting lifetime pCloud and be done with it...

  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
    12 months ago
    MmeMinty wrote:

    Thanks, I didn't see a thread about status icons so I created one, "Add toggle to disable status icons".

    There was one already - I linked to it. Sadly making multiple ones just means that they don't get the upvotes needed

  • MmeMinty's avatar
    MmeMinty
    New member | Level 1
    12 months ago

    I understand, but the linked suggestion refers to the context menu only. The status icons are distinct and quite frankly significantly more annoying.

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    12 months ago

    Hi MmeMinty, we appreciate the feedback on this matter. 
     
    We take all comments into consideration when improving the Dropbox site and services. 

     

    As Mark suggested, we recommend upvoting the idea he posted with a comment to explain the other option you want changed.

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