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BarksySK
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Remove dropbox items from the Windows 11 file explorer right click context menu dropdown list

I have tried to remove all of the Dropbox items from the right click context menu in FileExplorer Windows 11 by deleting all the share folders in Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell...
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jrlbell's avatar
jrlbell
Helpful | Level 7
2 years ago

I love the way Jay writes, "...might be... ." I guess that means that Dropbox support staff don't actually know what Dropbox is doing to our computers. He also refers to "folders" which is not what the question is about. It is about Windows File Explorer context menu items related to Dropbox.

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Rich
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
2 years ago
jrlbell wrote:

I love the way Jay writes, "...might be... ." I guess that means that Dropbox support staff don't actually know what Dropbox is doing to our computers.

Jay is a Community Manager; not a Dropbox Engineer. The Community Managers are extremely knowledgeable in the Dropbox products and they're features, but it's impossible for them to know every specific detail about the inner workings of the application or update process.

 

Also, the "folders" he referred to are the registry keys, which were referred to as "folders" by the OP, so clearly Jay was using the same terminology that the OP used so as to not cause confusion for them.

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