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Windows (10) keeps telling me that Dropbox wants to change files on my machine
Windows (10) keeps telling me that Dropbox wants to change files on my machine. I get the Account Protection security pop-up window multiple times a day and sometimes there'll be dozens of them in th...
Nancy
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey jeffinbville. Have you made sure that UAC levels have been set to the default ones?
If yes, and you’re not on a free Basic account with more than 3 devices currently linked, I’d like you to uninstall and reinstall the Dropbox app as the next step.
Let me know if that fixes the issue.
This is the only program asking for permissions. Also, I reinstalled last night after two days of NOT getting these messages and now I'm getting them again.
Now, I've told Windows not to alert me when programs make changes to my computer and I'm not comfortable with that. There needs to be a better way.
- Walter
Hey jeffinbville, could you try the offline installer from this page directly and let us know how it goes?
Also, make sure to install it with admin privileges as outlined here.
I'm sorry, this isn't 1995 when uninstall/reinstall was all the rage. Besides, if you follow the thread it's been done. There's a setting in DropBox that changes something on my machine (most likely a log file or similar) that sets off an alarm that neither of my other two cloud-storage programs do. Now, it hasn't happened in 12 hours so there's hope. But if it continues on I'll need to go back to using Google Drive, and I'm okay with that, it's just not a preference to be with Google as much as I am.
