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Dropbox options missing in right-click menu on Windows
Hi guys,
today, probably after downloading and installing latest stable release a Dropbox, the context menu disappeared from Windows Explorer.
Dropbox version: 183.4.7058
Windows 10 ver...
Hi all,
Jumping in here, as our team would like to share some insights that may be helpful:
This issue may be related to other applications on your computer that use the icon overlay and context menu functionality of your Operating System.If you are on Windows, please note that Windows has a limit of 15 overlay icons that Windows Explorer can load, and the operating system reserves 4 for its own use.
If there are more than 15, then the Dropbox icons or context menus may not show. To fix this and move the Dropbox sync icons to the first 15 positions:1. Follow the steps in the following article to open your Windows 10 registry editor (applicable to Windows 11 also):
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-open-registry-editor-in-windows-10-deab38e6-91d6-e0aa-4b7c-8878d9e07b11
2. A “Registry Editor” window will open.
3. Navigate through the following folders: “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” > “SOFTWARE” > “Microsoft” > “Windows” > “CurrentVersion” > “Explorer” > “ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers”.
4. Rename (right-click and click Rename) the files, so that the Dropbox files appear in the first 15 files in the list. You can do this by putting spaces in front of those file names, so that they move higher up in the list.
5. Close and restart both of your computer and the Dropbox desktop app.
Thank you,
Sam
I may have a fix, I had a user report this yesterday on Dropbox for Business Advanced. The report was that the Windows Explorer right-click context menu was missing all Dropbox options. I checked the app version and it was up to date, it appears the update caused the problem. Although Control Panel, Programs only showed one Dropbox version, I found another.
In CMD / Powershell, run the command "winget list"
Check the output for multiple Dropbox entries, in my case two versions were listed:
Dropbox Dropbox.Dropbox 201.4.5552
Dropbox DropboxInc.Dropbox_wkt425jdc3sga 200.4.7134.0
If there are multiple entries, remove the older version e.g:
"winget uninstall DropboxInc.Dropbox_wkt425jdc3sga"
Restart Dropbox, once it is fully synced and ready, test the context menu is back
Worth mentioning, before I discovered the above, I had tried installing over the top of what was installed and removing and resinstalling - both failed. I think I found the second Dropbox version was installed as I was working through the advanced uninstall so perhaps that would have worked, but my method avoids the need to resync everything!
