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StopMessingWithOverlayIcons's avatar
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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Stargx's avatar
Stargx
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

I've finally found a solution to this. Here's how it goes for SVN users:

 

Go to TortoiseSVN->Settings->Icon Overlays->Overlay Handlers and click on 'Start registry editor'

 

Delete all the dropbox crap if present.

 

(Might be a good idea to save a copy of your registry before proceeding)

 

Right click on 'ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers' and 'Export' to save a back up.

 

Then right click on 'ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers' -> permissions -> advanced.

 

At the top left, click on the 'change' link near where is says owner.

 

Copy this into the box 'NT Service\TrustedInstaller'

Press OK and you're all set. This should stop any program from altering the overlay icon settings.

 

Here where I got this info from: https://superuser.com/questions/1271755/prevent-a-change-to-one-or-more-windows-10-registry-keys

 

I did this last week and so far so good, DropBox hasn't been able to mess with my icons. And it's so nice to have them back for SVN.

 

I'm still annoyed I have to do this. DropBox users should not have to mess with registry settings to stop this from happening.

 

  • digisolve's avatar
    digisolve
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago

    This doesn't work for me. 'NT Service\TrustedInstaller' is not recognised 

     

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