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kkarisa
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Need help with temporarily disabling Dropbox

I need to try to take an exam on my computer, but the program won't allow me to with Dropbox running (dbxsvc). How do I disable it safely so I can take my test and then re-enable it after?
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Rich's avatar
Rich
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4 years ago
kkarisa wrote:
The Dropbox button vanished from the Taskbar, but the exam center dialog box that told me to close the program still detected it as running.

Go into Task Manager and find the remaining Dropbox tasks, right-click on each one and select End task.

 

 

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martinhawley
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

dbxsvc just comes right back. 

  • Hannah's avatar
    Hannah
    Icon for Dropbox Community Moderator rankDropbox Community Moderator
    3 years ago

    Hey martinhawley, thanks for the nudge here.

     

    Can you give us some more info or send us some screenshots explaining the issue you're having?

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