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StopMessingWithOverlayIcons
Helpful | Level 7
5 years ago

Add option to disable icon overlays in Windows Explorer

Please add an option to disable Dropbox icon overlays. It is so frustrating to remove Dropbox Shell Icon identifiers from the top of ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers list after each update!  It is disres...
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johne53
Helpful | Level 6
4 years ago

Yes, that's it exactly! No-one's asking them to remove the overlay icons - just to add an option so users can either enable them or disable them. It's hardly rocket science.

 

And yet they've totally refused to implement this request, despite it now having 70+ votes!!

 

Yet at the same time, they can't understand why users are abandoning Dropbox and looking elsewhere... very strange 😒

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