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Remove Dropbox options from the context menu.
Hi, recently Dropbox has started cramming my Explorer context menu with all of these options I mostly don't plan to use:
Come on. Do you think it's ok to just dump all your stuff in ther...
Thanks for the tip, midrare.
Can we trust that your fix is safe?
Best, C
Can we trust that your fix is safe?
Best, C
It's what I'm using with zero issues. All this does is add Dropbox context menu shell extensions to a blacklist in the registry. I'd be surprised if anything happened.
I agree that the Registry edit should be quite ok. Just a question -
I had previously attempted basically the same as your registry tweaks by using utility apps that allow "editing" the Windows context menus. These are just UI's that tweak the registry for you.
But the problem I had with Dropbox what that it was "all or nothing". You can either remove all option, or get all of them, but you can't remove ones but keep the others. And you can't put them all in a sub-menu.
So, do you know of any way to remove some options but keep others? Until Dropbox fix the blatant mistake, of course.
You need to edit the .reg file. You see the lines with =""? There's one for each context menu item. ="" adds to the blacklist (disables) and =- removes from the blacklist (enables). You need some trial and error to determine which ones you have to set to what. If you do this, please do report back and tell me which items correspond to which menu items so I can update the labels.
Are you replying to me?
I don't get how this forum works. Suddenly there are entries that start from even before I posted my question.
If you are replying to me then please give better details.
