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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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stdedos's avatar
stdedos
Helpful | Level 5

Please rework how your overlays work.

 

This image of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers is at the very least ridiculous

given that the Windows is limiting the available overlays to 15/11. (Yes, this image maybe does not make enough, since it's after I have modified this to fix my system; however, your developers will know how it appears originally.)

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Jay
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
5 years ago

Hi stdedos, thanks for posting on the Community!

 

We appreciate any feedback about how to improve the Dropbox desktop application.

  • stdedos's avatar
    stdedos
    Helpful | Level 5
    5 years ago

    That is more like a bug report rather than a "suggestion that users can vote on".

    It's highly technical and very specific, half of the users don't even understand it.

     

    I assume that was obvious enough.

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