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steffen r.4
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10 years ago
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Dropbox with a UAC prompt every 10 minutes

hello, I get a very annoying UAC prompt to allow Dropbox to execute with admin privileges every 10 minutes. I having this issue in a week now. What to do? Steffen  
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steffen r.4's avatar
steffen r.4
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Hey all

I unistalled Dropbox and when I try to install dropbox again I get a error:

Installing dropbox update failed with error 0x80004002

Have anyone see this error before

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estruyf
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

Same issue over here. UAC message every 10-30 minutes. After uninstalling Dropbox, tried to install it again with the normal installer and offline installer, but both give the "Dropbox update installation failed with error 0x80004002" message.

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