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How do I remove the Dropbox icon from the Windows 10 file explorer?
Since upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10, there is a Dropbox icon in the Windows file explorer navigation pane. I already have a link to Dropbox and other cloud-storage options in the Quick links section of the file explorer, so I don't need this extra icon!
How do I remove the Dropbox icon from the navigation pane? And to be clear, I don't mean the quick-link, I mean the stand-alone 'system-type' icon in the navigation area.
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- Rich
Super User II
There is no option to remove it. Search the forums and you'll find a topic or two that contains some registry edits you can make to get rid of it, but I believe it just reappears on the next update.
The icon in question is confuzing because it points to dropbox.exe (not to the dropbox folder).
In other words it is a shortcut that you can just put in the trashcan on win7 - not sure how to do that yet in win10!
There is a perfect way of getting rid of this: uninstall dropbox in windows 10 and tell your company and private environment that you don't use dropbox anymore as long as this unacceptable situation is continued.
That is what I did!
I have uninstalled dropbox in windows 10 and there is no option to delete the dropbox icon in the navigation pane in explorer. Anyone has a solution?
That "icon" sounds like a token or Most Recently Used (MRU) item. Only way I have found to clear 'em out is to use good ol' Ccleaner !-)
Thanks Rick, but that didn't work either.
I do not see the DB icon in Windows 10 (upgraded from win 8) File Explorer - so I cannot reproduce the issue. Rich (above) says it can't be removed, yet I don't see it!
What I do see is the Dropbox folder in the navigation pane.
In the navigation pane, exactly! There must be some way to remove it, surely?
Jeremy, I do not understand what you object to: it is a DB icon that replaces the <folder> icon in windows. Beside "onedrive" you'll see their icon too.
You can always goto Windows "Properties" and change the icon:
"Properties" Customize tab "Change Icon" ...
Jeremy, I've gotten below solution from another forum and it worked for me. The icon finally disappeared from my navigation pane:
Hope this works for you too:
Open the start menu and search for "regedit", it should suggest "run command", with an icon of a blue block made of smaller blue blocks. click on that. be careful in this program, because if you start randomly deleting stuff in here, you can very easily crash your computer in a lot of different ways.
on the left pane of regedit, start going through the folders and get to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}"
on the right pane, you should now see some items. double-click on "System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree", and it should open up a new little window. change "Value data" to the number 0, and click ok.
I rebooted my computer after the final step and the dropbox icon didn't reappear :-)
