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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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Richard D.48's avatar
Richard D.48
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

And Stefan F's brilliant solution will even work on Windows versions where Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, have omitted secpol.msc. I have a Windows 7 Home Premium that lacks secpol.msc. Luckily I also have Windows 7 Professional machines where I have added Stefan's policies. I simply exported the registry entries created by Stefan's hack and imported them to the Windows 7 Home Premium machine's registry. The registry entries are located in HKCU and HKLM in:

Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Group Policy Objects{ ... UUID ... }Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Safer\CodeIdentifiers\0\Paths\

You will see the ".dropbox.cache\dropbox-upgrade-*.exe" path included as part of the entry. Once imported my Windows 7 Home Premium laptop is also cured.

Thanks again, Stefan!

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