Is it possible to disable the sync icons on files in Explorer?

[Mr T]

How can I disable the overlay icons, that are showing the current sync status of dropbox in the explorer? I need them for other applications that I am using. Windows 10 can obvioulsy only handle 15 icons, but the most of them are used by dropbox per default.

The only solution I found is to delete the registry entrys of dropbox in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers, but they were obvioulsy installed again automatically. This is getting really annoying .

Is there a possibility to disable these icons anywhere in the dropbox settings? I did not found an option for it. The only icon that would be helpful is the green "sync OK" icon, the rest of it is not relevant for me. Can I maybe modify some kind of *.ini file e.g. of dropbox to get rid of the useless icons?

[Hannah]

Thanks for taking the time to post to our Community today, @L. M.1.

We really appreciate your feedback about this.

I will personally make sure that your comments are passed along to our team.

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Have a great day!

[L. M.1]

If this was a new topic then I would accept your response. However, multiple users have requested this many, many times before and DropBox has never done more than a polite "We hear you". Do you really?

Please explain why this option has not been incorporated years ago, and there are multiple pages on this. However, because of how you update they are not robust.

https://superuser.com/questions/1193399/how-to-stop-showing-the-dropbox-green-checkmarks-across-ever....

https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/content/en-us00688417/#:~:text=Right%2Dclick%20the%20Windows%....

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Apps-and-Installations/Is-it-possible-to-disable-the-sync-icons-on-f...

https://www.tenforums.com/customization/190302-change-remove-dropbox-sync-icons-explorer.html

A few examples (there are more).

[jonobo]

Exactly. We PAY for your product. This overlay issue has existed for years now. It interferes with version control overlays which are much more important for my company. It is unacceptable that this hasn't been fixed yet. This may seem trivial to you, but we are looking into different options now.

[L. M.1]

It is worse than "not fixed". If you use the standard methods to remove them, e.g. delete or change the Registry entries, DropBox will recreate them. Therefore there is no question that they know about this and have deliberately chosen not to fix it.

Related, they have also recently (I think) added entries to the Right-Click-Mouse which are only added after DropBox starts. Similar, this is deliberately forcing the customer.

The  customer is right, except with DropBox?