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Mike G.'s avatar
Mike G.
New member | Level 1
12 years ago

Disable automatic updates

How can I prevent dropbox from automatically updating itself? The new dropbox 3 has a very anti-windows-7 UI that I don't like, so I reinstalled 2.10. How do I stop dropbox from continually install...
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Brock C.'s avatar
Brock C.
New member | Level 2
11 years ago

I tried installing a 2.x version. Then I closed immediately. Then I made the following file read only and I denied all permissions to it.

C:\Users\brock\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\DropboxUpdateHelper
Somehow, Dropbox still managed to update itself. This is definitely the file though that handles updating Dropbox. I also tried another another idea. It somehow still updates itself.

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