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Jeremy C.3's avatar
Jeremy C.3
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

How do I remove the Dropbox icon from the Windows 10 file explorer?

Since upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10, there is a Dropbox icon in the Windows file explorer navigation pane.  I already have a link to Dropbox and other cloud-storage options in the Quick link...
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Irene W.'s avatar
Irene W.
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Jeremy, I've gotten below solution from another forum and it worked for me. The icon finally disappeared from my navigation pane:

Hope this works for you too:

Open the start menu and search for "regedit", it should suggest "run command", with an icon of a blue block made of smaller blue blocks. click on that. be careful in this program, because if you start randomly deleting stuff in here, you can very easily crash your computer in a lot of different ways.

on the left pane of regedit, start going through the folders and get to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}"

on the right pane, you should now see some items. double-click on "System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree", and it should open up a new little window. change "Value data" to the number 0, and click ok.

I rebooted my computer after the final step and the dropbox icon didn't reappear :-)

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