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Scott W.34
New member | Level 1
11 years ago
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How does one remove the Dropbox link from the Navigation Pane om Windows 10?

I don't notice it on Win8.1, but I have already hacked out a bunch of stuff in the registry on Win8.1. I have the Dropbox folder conveniently located in the root of a second hard drive, I don't need ...
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  • Pikamander2's avatar
    Pikamander2
    9 years ago

    Okay, I think I figured out how to do it. There's only one key value that you have to change, but you also have to change its permissions so that Dropbox won't change it back.

     

    First you have to go to:

     

    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}

     

    And set the System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree value to 0.

     

    This will remove it from the File Explorer's navigation pane.

     

    Afterwards, you'll need to prevent Dropbox from changing the value back.

     

    To do this, right click the {E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A} key and then click Permissions. Click Advanced, and then click Add. In the dialog box that appears, type Everyone, and then click OK. Change the type to Deny, and make it apply to This key only. Click Show advanced permissions, and check the Set Value box.

     

    Afterwards, click OK and Dropbox should no longer be able to modify that value. Hopefully Dropbox or Microsoft will make this kind of thing easier someday.

William W.23's avatar
William W.23
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Thanks all for the hints and workarounds. Here is what I did in the end:

1. Modify pin value and folder type value (SGAO) so the item is doubly invisible:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}]
@="Dropbox"
"SortOrderIndex"=dword:00000042
"System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Dropbox\\Client\\Dropbox.exe,-6001"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}\InProcServer32]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,59,00,53,00,54,00,45,00,4d,00,52,00,4f,00,4f,00,54,00,25,\
  00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,73,00,68,00,\
  65,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}\Instance]
"CLSID"="{0E5AAE11-A475-4c5b-AB00-C66DE400274E}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}\Instance\InitPropertyBag]
"Attributes"=dword:00000011
"TargetFolderPath"="E:\\William\\Dropbox"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}\ShellFolder]
"Attributes"=dword:01048576
"FolderValueFlags"=dword:00000028

2. Enable inheritance on the registry key [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}]

- This makes the ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES user explicit. I denied *this* user write access, while allowing my own and SYSTEM USERS all access.

RESULT:

For the first time, I rebooted and "It's gone, Sam. I can no longer feel the Ring."

What a relief!

***

I also use Winaero's ThisPC Tweaker, with which I've created an "All My Stuff" entry as the only one apart from the drives. Clicking on it goes to my user profile, so OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, and ASUS Webstorage are there together with other top-level folders.

 

 

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