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Why is DBXsvc still running after uninstall of the program
I recently uninstalled Dropbox. Today, after 5 reboots, I find a process called DBXsvc running in the Task Manager. Turns out its a dropbox component. How is this still on my system if I uninstalled t...
From what I can gather, this just occurs due to Windows locking the process or not having sufficient privileges to stop the process in order for Dropbox to be uninstalled. In Dropbox's defence, this is something very difficult for any application to do due to the way Microsoft's services and processes work.
The good news is that it isn't too hard to fix. By using a third party unlocking tool or somehow manipulating the command line to stop the service and then remove it, you can easily remove the DBXsvc.
"this is something very difficult for any application"
It is not hard at all and every service driver uninstallation programmer worth his chops does it with a reboot.
InstallShield Limited Edition (ISLE) is free for Visual Studio developers and unistalls services easily.
Suggesting that DropBox doesn't have a compentant enough programmer to do something this basic is further insulting DropBox.
agreed. I uninstalled Dropbox months ago and jsut today see this process. Yea it's easy enough to remove after googling and spending about 5 mintues researching but that shouldn't have to be done. Lots of people I"m sure have no idea this service is running on their machine without their knowledge.
I just am bvisitng this in Feb 2018 I see the post is from a copule years ago so it is still happening. Just another reason I don't use Dropbox and instead use OneDrive and Google Drive
