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dcabrames
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11 months ago

Numerous Windows User Account Control Pop-up messages

I opened my Windows 10 PC today and was greeted with a lot of User Account Control pop up messages all wanting permission to change my PC to install a Dropbox Update.  The details say the message ori...
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dcabrames
New member | Level 2
11 months ago

As an update, I manually reinstalled the Dropbox App and that worked successfully I am now running version 216.4.4420.

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Walter
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11 months ago

Hey dcabrames - thanks for joining our Community!

We're happy to hear you sorted this out, but please let us know if anything else comes up.

Cheers! 

PS: You cannot disable the auto-updates at this moment as each new version of the Dropbox desktop app includes a number of key updates so it’s important that you run the latest version whenever possible. 

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