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I have tried to remove all of the Dropbox items from the right click context menu in FileExplorer Windows 11 by deleting all the share folders in Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell and shellex and Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell and shellex. But the items don't leave the menu. Does anybody know how remove Dropbox items from the context menu?
Hi @BarksySK, thanks for messaging the Community.
Currently, there isn't an official method to remove the Dropbox context menu items from Windows or Mac devices.
The desktop app might be re-creating the folders when it detects they are missing, or when the app updates.
If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.
Jay
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Well, dropbox, perhaps you should let us choose in a setting which context menus we want, LIKE A CIVILIZED APP.
And maybe, not override common keyboard shorcuts like "D" for DELETE, which you currently override, like an uncouth engineering team that thinks they're the only important thing going on on my computer.
And we HAD a working solution that worked for years by deleting the above reg entries via script, but no, you can't let us have control over our own computers, so now y'all have disabled THAT as well, instead of allowing us to use the registry to override settings as intended.
Stop trying to force your vision on my explorer window, and let the users use the app the way they want.
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