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alexned
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8 months ago

Re: Recent Dropbox update seems to have removed the right-click menu options. Any way to get them back?

Colin_posts_here​ , after the latest Dropbox update for Windows, users will start seeing a limited Dropbox menu for files outside of Dropbox, so the behavior that you describe is expected. 

As far as the screenshots are involved, I believe that the context menu closes when launching the Snipping Tool via Ctrl+Windows+S. Instead, try to use Alt+PrtScr, which will capture the active windows in the clipboard, then paste the image where you need it.

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  • Colin_posts_here's avatar
    Colin_posts_here
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 months ago

    Thanks. If that's the expected behavior for the right-click menu in explorer, I understand and accept that. 

    On the screen captures, please note (if you think this is not standard, please let me know):

    Ctrl+PrtScr, Shift+PrtScr, and Ctrl+Shift+PrtScr all seem to work and do the same thing as each other, but they grab the entire desktop, not just a current window. I use 3 monitors that don't all align, so the result is a massive screen capture of 7920x3840, but I could always crop it down. I should have tried those.

    PrtScr, which also grabs the entire desktop, is what I had tried before to do this, but like Shift+Win+S and Alt+PrtScr, it closes the right-click menu. 

    Alt+PrtScr is the command using the PrtScr key that only grabs the current window.

     

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