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I've noticed that since the last update, Dropbox on Windows 7 doesn't close or shutdown properly - two dropbox.exe processes remain running in the background. I started paying attention the other day when (soon after closing the Dropbox and leaving the computer idling for a few minutes) the laptop fan went loud and the drive activity LED blinked a lot. I killed those two then, though.
I hope you can fix this.
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Yes, I closed it via the menus you mention (don't know of any other way, though), and observed in Process Explorer how the processes were shutting down - two of them remained.
I'll try the reinstall some other time when I have more time. In the meantime - is there any portable version of Dropbox for Windows, with all the simplicity the default app used to have? (All I actually need is an app that runs on my request, executes the syncing, and shuts down on my request. Nothing less, nothing more.)
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