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Sammy G.'s avatar
Sammy G.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago
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Can't run Dropbox unless it has administrator rights

Windows 7 64bit For some reason dropbox doesn't start with startup anymore because it needs administrator rights to start. If I try running the app normally without administrator rights, nothing ha...
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  • sfantudoodle_x's avatar
    sfantudoodle_x
    10 years ago

    What solved this problem for me (not saying is going to to it for everybody else) was to delete everything in C:\Users\"your user name"\AppData\Local\Temp folder. There were 3 or 4 files starting with dropbox..... (can't remember the exact names) which I couldn't delete only after restarting windows in Safe Mode. So, I deleted everything in Temp folder while in Safe Mode, rebooted normally and voila, dropbox started after logon on it's own. Cheers!

     

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Gabriel Z.'s avatar
Gabriel Z.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

I have the sale problem on a clean install of Windows 8.1 64-bit directly from Microsoft and using the latest web installer from Dropbox. Even after flagging the dropbox.exe to run as administrator in my AppData roaming folder, it will not auto-start on log in.

I need to create a shortcut to said dropbox.exe on my desktop and manually launch it. Placing it in my Startup folder does not work.

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