Add option to disable icon overlays in Windows Explorer

I think it's more powerful if dozens cancel their accounts to shouting.

But I guess that's just me.

stdedos you're not the only person in this thread who thinks cancelling account is the only option. 
I thought like you too but now I want to try different approach. 
Please vote this idea up and share link to it wherever you find it appropriate 

Bullies respond only to strength

Walter 
This idea now apperas in the 'Top voted ideas from the Community' section.

Is this enough to forward it to the dev team, if not, how many votes does it need?

It'd be nice to find out what the criteria are...  A quick look through the Ideas section reveals that some suggestions get implemented after only 3 or 4 votes whereas others can have scores of votes but still show up as Needs more votes

Does the voting system even count for anything..?

+1(billion)

Another concerned group of users would benefit from the ability to disable overlays - it also renders windows explorer file management nearly unusable for many of us:

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-installs-integrations/all-FILE-EXPLORER-FILE-icons-flashing-whenever-dropbox-is/td-p/368178

While Dropbox fixes this problem for years, you can use my script...

You can delete some or all popular invaders with comma separated list.

For all

set SIOIFolders=%SIOIDropBox%,%SIOIAcronis%,%SIOIOneDrive%,%SIOINextCloud%,%SIOIGDrive%

For dropbox only

set SIOIFolders=%SIOIDropBox%

Run with Administrative privileges

ShellIconOverlayIdentifiersCleaner.cmd

@echo off
cls
SetLocal EnableDelayedExpansion

rem ------------------------------------
echo ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers cleaner
echo.

rem ------------------------------------
set SIOIRoot=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
set SIOIDropBox=DropboxExt01,DropboxExt02,DropboxExt03,DropboxExt04,DropboxExt05,DropboxExt06,DropboxExt07,DropboxExt08,DropboxExt09,DropboxExt10
set SIOIOneDrive=OneDrive1,OneDrive2,OneDrive3,OneDrive4,OneDrive5,OneDrive6,OneDrive7,SkyDrivePro1,SkyDrivePro2
set SIOINextCloud=OCError,OCOK,OCOKShared,OCSync,OCWarning
set SIOIGDrive=GoogleDriveBlacklisted,GoogleDriveSynced,GoogleDriveSyncing
set SIOIAcronis=AcronisSyncError,AcronisSyncInProgress,AcronisyncOk

set SIOIFolders=%SIOIDropBox%,%SIOIAcronis%
for %%i in (%SIOIFolders%) DO call :fnDeleteKey "%%i"

echo.
echo Restarting Explorer...
taskkill /im explorer.exe /f >nul 2>&1
explorer.exe

goto Quit

rem ------------------------------------
:fnDeleteKey
set "CharSpace= "
set "SIOISpacer="
set "SIOIPath="

set SIOIKey=%~1
echo ^> Removing key: %SIOIKey%
for /L %%b in (0,1,5) do (
set SIOIPath=%SIOIRoot%\!SIOISpacer!%SIOIKey%
set SIOISpacer=!SIOISpacer!%CharSpace%
reg DELETE "!SIOIPath!" /reg:32 /f >nul 2>&1
reg DELETE "!SIOIPath!" /reg:64 /f >nul 2>&1
)

Exit /B

rem ------------------------------------
:Quit
Exit /B

Added by johne53:

" Does the voting system even count for anything..? "

I guess the answer to that is:- "No !"

Emma   how many votes are needed for implementing this feature?

Thanks for the post. Time for Dropbox to wake up