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StopMessingWithOverlayIcons's avatar
StopMessingWithOverlayIcons
Helpful | Level 7
5 years ago

Add option to disable icon overlays in Windows Explorer

Please add an option to disable Dropbox icon overlays. It is so frustrating to remove Dropbox Shell Icon identifiers from the top of ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers list after each update!  It is disres...
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seeigecannon's avatar
seeigecannon
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

I completley agree with the people above. People have been complaining about this for years. I suspect this is more of a managment problem than a software dev problem. Dropbox keeps taking 10 out of the 11 slots, I suspect to disable the overlays of competetion, but as a side effect screws up Tortise which is FAR more important to anybody who uses things like Git and SVN.

 

Also, 10 icons? WTF! Everything that is important could be done with 3. Up to date, updating, error.

 

If I had a dollar for every time I screwed up with TortiseGit because of you guys stealing the shell overlays I could buy a nice lunch at McDonalds.

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