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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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StopMessingWithOverlayIcons
Helpful | Level 7
4 years ago

FatDog1 luckily, I've just finished setting up of newly installed Windows and when googling for regedit path I've stumbled upon this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shell_icon_overlay_identifiers

You can choose and leave whatever overlays you need most. You can even remove all of them, it will not affect Dropbox in any way.

However I'm  afraid that number of keys under "ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers" key has nothing to do with Windows Explorer performance, you should investigate bottleneck elsewhere.

 

Best regards,

Alex

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