{"id":1142,"date":"2017-12-25T17:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T17:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2018-02-04T21:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T21:27:21","slug":"hide-dropbox-file-explorer-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/2017\/hide-dropbox-file-explorer-icon\/","title":{"rendered":"Hide Dropbox File Explorer Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use dropbox but it isn&#8217;t my main sync app. Dropbox doesn&#8217;t give you the option to remove the icon from File Explorer, and if you manually remove the registry entries that are related to it, they are recreated at each automated update of Dropbox.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/remove-dropbox.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1148\" border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Another way of removing the icon is to add an entry to Windows &#8220;NoEnum&#8221; registry key. This tells Windows to not process matching keys, so Dropbox just gets ignored.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"146\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/remove-dropbox-reg.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1144\" border=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/remove-dropbox-reg.png 546w, https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/remove-dropbox-reg-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Add the following registry entries:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \" title=\"Dropbox Removal\" >[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\NonEnum]\r\n\"{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1B}\"=dword:00000001\r\n\"{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}\"=dword:00000001<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Download reg file<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-downloadmanager\/images\/ext\/unknown.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/download\/dropbox-removal.reg\">dropbox-removal.reg<\/a><\/strong> (476 bytes, 3,002 hits)<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use dropbox but it isn&#8217;t my main sync app. Dropbox doesn&#8217;t give you the option to remove the icon from File Explorer, and if you manually remove the registry entries that are related to it, they are recreated at each automated update of Dropbox. Another way of removing the icon is to add an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nooblet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}