Dropbox with a UAC prompt every 10 minutes

[steffen r.4]

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

[steffen r.4]

Nobody have this issue or know whats wrong?

[Rich]

It's likely just trying to update itself as auto-updates are pushed out as needed. If you ignore them, the software will eventually be unable to communicate with Dropbox.

[steffen r.4]

So you think I should just ignore this

[steffen r.4]

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

[estruyf]

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.

[jensen]

Same problem here - any solution to this?

[neodanado]

same with me. I can not re-install and keep asking for UAC.

[Mark]

The only solution is a reinstall I'm afraid.

If its on a work network I'd suggest speaking to them. You may find that you are unable to continue to use Dropbox without upgrading the software as they have depreciated lots of old versions recently.

[310EI · Accepted solution]

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@estruyf wrote:

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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