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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...
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stevestevesteve
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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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Megan
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3 years ago

Awesome news, stevestevesteve!

 

Glad to see everything is resolved. If you need anything else, you know where to find us. 

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