Remove Dropbox options from the context menu.

Everyone: I figured out how to do this. Save this as "disable.reg" and double click. You're welcome.

If you want to revert, do the same thing but replace every instance of ="" with =-

Dropbox menus do look and feel a bit wordy and clunky in Windows 11 especially when compared to the competition.....

The context menu changes when selecting an individual file.

Dropbox tries to use only one context menu for everything ... 

It's what I'm using with zero issues. All this does is add Dropbox context menu shell extensions to a blacklist in the registry. I'd be surprised if anything happened.

I agree that the Registry edit should be quite ok. Just a question -

I had previously attempted basically the same as your registry tweaks by using utility apps that allow "editing" the Windows context menus. These are just UI's that tweak the registry for you.

But the problem I had with Dropbox what that it was "all or nothing". You can either remove all option, or get all of them, but you can't remove ones but keep the others. And you can't put them all in a sub-menu.

So, do you know of any way to remove some options but keep others? Until Dropbox fix the blatant mistake, of course.

I want to remove all dropbox entries from the context menu.

I have used the tips provided by the support here in the forum.

I also used tools to edit the menu context menu and removed several items from there.

But nothing I do is reflecting in the results.

It seems that the new update is not working like it used to.

Please provide a solution that will remove the entries from the context menu.

You need to edit the .reg file. You see the lines with =""? There's  one for each context menu item. ="" adds to the blacklist (disables) and =- removes from the blacklist (enables). You need some trial and error to determine which ones you have to set to what. If you do this, please do report back and tell me which items correspond to which menu items so I can update the labels.

Are you replying to me?

I don't get how this forum works. Suddenly there are entries that start from even before I posted my question.

If you are replying to me then please give better details.

Ok I got it. I saved the reg file and ran it.

Seems good so far.

Thanks Midrare

This is hardly a new problem, but it continues to amaze me. I figured it would have been addressed by now.

How does Dropbox think it's okay to overload the context menu with their garbage?

• there is no option to disable in settings
• majority of users need all these features
• the actions could easily be condensed into a menu (similar to the open-source PeaZip example below)
• as a power user I had registry hacks to remove entirely but that ability was removed in a previous update

End result is that I only launch Dropbox as needed to sync. The first time I right click on a file it reminds me to exit the app. Also this has convinced me to never subscribe to a premium plan. I mean, why would I? A large, publicly traded company ignoring years of user feedback about a huge pain in their core service. There's plenty of other options.