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YankeeDocNJ
2 years agoNew member | Level 2
Dropbox Update triggering User Account Control (UAC) constantly
I have v183.3.6853 of Dropbox for Windows. Yet Dropbox Update CONSTANTLY runs triggering User Account Control (UAC) warnings - and multiple of them. I woke up today to FORTY of them. This is a home PC with only the administrator as a user. I cannot find any place to allow Dropbox Update in Windows NOT to trigger the UAC. Is there a way in DropBox to shut this annoying thing off? Or maybe have it go once a week like a normal update checker? This is very annoying and sometimes causes me to have to reboot my PC because all those warnings slow it don. Thanks!!!
- MeganDropbox Staff
Hi YankeeDocNJ, welcome to our Community!
It sounds like the version you're using is a Beta version of our desktop app. Could you try to temporarily downgrade from the beta version, in order to check if that's causing the issue and if the behavior remains the same with the UAC warnings?
You can do this by accessing your account settings on the Dropbox website and then turning Early releases off.
After that, feel free to re-install the app, and let me know how it goes. Thanks a bunch!
- Daddyo37Explorer | Level 4
I just recently started having this same exact problem with version 191.4.4995.0 on Windows 10 Pro. Dropbox Early Access is turned off. Any other suggestions?
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