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Jeremy C.3's avatar
Jeremy C.3
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

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 link...
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Edy G.'s avatar
Edy G.
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

This is somewhat ridiculous. I've disabled OneDrive in Windows 10 because I don't use it and I don't want to see the folder in the Explorer (I used the Group Policy solution in Win10 Pro).

Now Dropbox does exactly the same, forcing me to swallow the Dropbox folder in the explorer without any chance to remove it from there. I'm a long-standing Dropbox user, but this really disappointing.

With Win10 Microsoft's policy is ignoring their users and forcing them to adopt anything thrown at them. Is Dropbox now doing the same? Why there's not an option of showing/hiding the Dropbox folder?

I wouldn't like to move to a different solution, but I'll do if I feel Dropbox is also just forcing users to do whatever they want.

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