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How does one remove the Dropbox link from the Navigation Pane om Windows 10?
I don't notice it on Win8.1, but I have already hacked out a bunch of stuff in the registry on Win8.1. I have the Dropbox folder conveniently located in the root of a second hard drive, I don't need ...
Okay, I think I figured out how to do it. There's only one key value that you have to change, but you also have to change its permissions so that Dropbox won't change it back.
First you have to go to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}
And set the System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree value to 0.
This will remove it from the File Explorer's navigation pane.
Afterwards, you'll need to prevent Dropbox from changing the value back.
To do this, right click the {E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A} key and then click Permissions. Click Advanced, and then click Add. In the dialog box that appears, type Everyone, and then click OK. Change the type to Deny, and make it apply to This key only. Click Show advanced permissions, and check the Set Value box.
Afterwards, click OK and Dropbox should no longer be able to modify that value. Hopefully Dropbox or Microsoft will make this kind of thing easier someday.
Dropbox is/was a good app. Saved me since very long time ago, because i needed a sync program, working myself simultaneously at many projects on several different devices, and this one was one of the very first appeared. However, like many other people in branch, i am a conservatory person and i dislike the way Windows10 pushes lot of garbage in it's interface. I tried to find a way to make things less cluttered and found various registry hacks for that. Still, i didn't find a way to remove the Dropbox link from the Navigation Pane in Windows 10. Will be nice if Dropbox dev team will make a small modification in app code (i'm programmer and i know its not big deal for that) to remove the auto-write itself into registry for that. To be hack-able by power users. There will be no visible effect on global market scale. Thank you.
