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stevestevesteve
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3 years ago

Removing Dropbox from Nav Pane in Windows 11

I've uninstalled Dropbox from my laptop but the navigation pane still contains the icon (which points to nothing and gives an error). I'd like to remove the icon from the navigation pane (it's tr...
Desktop
Setting up the apps
Uninstall
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stevestevesteve
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Yes it is un-linked according to my account security page.
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Jay
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3 years ago

Thanks for the info, in order to look into this matter in more detail, would it be possible to reach out to the email associated with your forum profile?

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    stevestevesteve
    Helpful | Level 5
    3 years ago
    Sure, go ahead.
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        stevestevesteve
        Helpful | Level 5
        3 years ago

        Further, one may have to delete every key in the registry under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\", for me this had entries from onedrive and dropbox.

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