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Dropbox Icon missing Windows 10
I fired my laptop up a couple of days ago and I noticed that the dropbox icon in the taskbar was missing. I checked task manager and dropbox is running theres just no icon and if I kill the task and...
Hi, I had this same (infuriating!) problem and fixed it thusly:
Right click on the systray area
select Properties
then select Notification area > customize
At the top there is a link to "Select which icons appear on the taskbar"
Go in there and toggle whatever setting you see for your dropbox icon.
Exit out -- should be fixed.
In my case the dropbox icon was set to "on" and I toggled it off. After exiting the dialog, I had my dropbox icon back in the "show hidden icons" area. I repeated the above and toggled the dropbox icon back to "on" and now it is back in my systray where it belongs.
I hope this helps someone.
Lori
Solution: as of Sep 15 2018, right click on taskbar in windows, select "Taskbar settings," and scroll down to section "Notification Area," and select "Select which Icons Appear on the Taskbar." here you should see DROPBOX and can turn it on!
Hi, I had this same (infuriating!) problem and fixed it thusly:
Right click on the systray area
select Properties
then select Notification area > customize
At the top there is a link to "Select which icons appear on the taskbar"
Go in there and toggle whatever setting you see for your dropbox icon.
Exit out -- should be fixed.
In my case the dropbox icon was set to "on" and I toggled it off. After exiting the dialog, I had my dropbox icon back in the "show hidden icons" area. I repeated the above and toggled the dropbox icon back to "on" and now it is back in my systray where it belongs.
I hope this helps someone.
Lori
Where you say right click on the system tray, do you mean the taskbar? I have right clicked on the taskbar but the pop up list doesn't include properties, so cannot get any further with retrieving the icon.
Thanks
- Jane
Dropbox Staff
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- When the uninstall finishes, reboot your computer. This will make sure the uninstall is complete.
- At that point, I’d suggest disabling any Security/Antivirus programs & give our offline installer a try:
Where you say right click on the system tray, do you mean the taskbar?
Hi Jane
The icon used to be there, and I expect still will be on my old Win7 laptop, so that is where I've been accustomed to seeing it and using it for years. It was bottom right on this laptop until a few days ago and then suddenly gone. No sign of it at all, not in the hidden icons tray either. I'm trying to attach a screenshot but getting an error message. The same happened yesterday. (I am signed in)
So anyway, no, no icon at all, grey or otherwise, and when I have tried what somebody else suggested, going to the taskbar settings and then choosing to display it - it quite simply isn't in the list.
All updates are installed. Nothing pending.
Dropbox is in my start menu, I have tried pinning it to the taskbar but cannot open it from there either. The only way I can find the Dropbox folder is by using whatever they call Windows Explorer nowadays and navigating the folders list. That gives me no access to Dropbox settings though so I cannot update what I want synced. Nor are there any Dropbox settings at dropbox.com
Big problem
Ros
"Right click in systray area". Can't do this. I get properties for whatever icon I'm in.
- Jane
Brilliant thank you so much. Fixed the problem
