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Ueli's avatar
Ueli
Helpful | Level 5
7 months ago

How can I disable Dropbox for individual users on a Windows PC?

I have a PC (Windows 11) with accounts for multiple users, i.e. a family PC. I am using dropbox, and it works well. However, other users are not using dropbox. These other users experience an annoyin...
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  • Rich's avatar
    Rich
    7 months ago
    Ueli wrote:

    When given, dropbox startup is indeed disabled - not only for this user, but for all users of the PC.

    I didn't realize it disabled that for all users.

     

    Disable it for all users, then create your own shortcut for Dropbox and place it in the Startup folder within your own user profile.

Rick C.21's avatar
Rick C.21
Helpful | Level 5
9 days ago

Easy way in this environment is to use task mangler and disable DropBox in Startup.  That-away, other users are not affected.  (The less users have to think about something, the better)

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