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StopMessingWithOverlayIcons's avatar
StopMessingWithOverlayIcons
Helpful | Level 7
6 years ago

Add option to disable icon overlays in Windows Explorer

Please add an option to disable Dropbox icon overlays. It is so frustrating to remove Dropbox Shell Icon identifiers from the top of ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers list after each update!  It is disres...
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luckyluke007
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

Hi Stargx,

 

what I experienced with your solution is that on the next update of the dropbox software, you will loose your right click context menu in explorer. There seems to be a link between both these things (I was informed on this by Dropbox support staff after complaining about the context menu dissappearing). So keep an eye open on that. If you don't need the right click context menu to copy a dropbox link, then you're fine.

I certainly need this capability and the connection between both makes it even more annoying because you have to choose between the overlay icons or the context menu....

 

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