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steffen r.4
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Dropbox with a UAC prompt every 10 minutes

hello, I get a very annoying UAC prompt to allow Dropbox to execute with admin privileges every 10 minutes. I having this issue in a week now. What to do? Steffen  
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estruyf
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Same issue over here. UAC message every 10-30 minutes. After uninstalling Dropbox, tried to install it again with the normal installer and offline installer, but both give the "Dropbox update installation failed with error 0x80004002" message.

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310EI
Star | Level 17
8 years ago
estruyf wrote:

Same issue over here. UAC message every 10-30 minutes. After uninstalling Dropbox, tried to install it again with the normal installer and offline installer, but both give the "Dropbox update installation failed with error 0x80004002" message.

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I searched Google for the error message that you're receiving.  Please read the first article that's listed below for possible causes and fixes.



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