How do I remove the Dropbox icon from the Windows 10 file explorer?

There is no option to remove it. Search the forums and you'll find a topic or two that contains some registry edits you can make to get rid of it, but I believe it just reappears on the next update.

In the navigation pane, exactly!  There must be some way to remove it, surely? 

There is a perfect way of getting rid of this: uninstall dropbox in windows 10 and tell your company and private environment that you don't use dropbox anymore as long as this unacceptable situation is continued.

That is what I did! 

I have uninstalled dropbox in windows 10 and there is no option to delete the dropbox icon in the navigation pane in explorer. Anyone has a solution?

No, I'd say it's clearly a Dropbox problem.  You can remove the icon from the navigation pane by editing the registry, but something consistently puts it back after a reboot - at least it does on my system.  The smoking gun points to Dropbox, as far as I am concerned.  Marking the actual Dropbox folder as hidden doesn't seem to achieve anything - it's still visible and so is the icon in the navigation pane.

The icon in question is confuzing because it points to dropbox.exe (not to the dropbox folder).

In other words it is a shortcut that you can just put in the trashcan on win7 - not sure how to do that yet in win10!

Thanks Rick, but that didn't work either.

I do not see the DB icon in Windows 10 (upgraded from win 8) File Explorer - so I cannot reproduce the issue.  Rich (above) says it can't be removed, yet I don't see it!

What I do see is the Dropbox folder in the navigation pane.

Jeremy, I've gotten below solution from another forum and it worked for me. The icon finally disappeared from my navigation pane:

Hope this works for you too:

Open the start menu and search for "regedit", it should suggest "run command", with an icon of a blue block made of smaller blue blocks. click on that. be careful in this program, because if you start randomly deleting stuff in here, you can very easily crash your computer in a lot of different ways.

on the left pane of regedit, start going through the folders and get to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}"

on the right pane, you should now see some items. double-click on "System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree", and it should open up a new little window. change "Value data" to the number 0, and click ok.

I rebooted my computer after the final step and the dropbox icon didn't reappear :-)

Thanks Irene, I had already tried that and although the Dropbox icon disappears immediately, it reappears after reboot :-(

I even searched through the registry for all occurrences of the partial key "E31EA727" - there are about 4 or so of them altogether, all belonging to Dropbox, and some also containing the "System.IsPinnedToNamespaceTree" entry.  I set all of them to zero, but still the wretched Dropbox icon reappears after reboot.

Rick M - I object because the icon doesn't belong there!  It merely references an existing folder - it's not a separate drive, not a network location and not a library, it's just a FOLDER. There is no reason to create an icon there which just takes up space, especially in view of the fact that most* of the other cloud drive applications DON'T have an icon in the navigation pane, and thus they can all be grouped neatly under Quick Access by creating shortcuts for them if required.

* Note: In the case of OneDrive, the icon can be permanently removed by a registry edit and it stays removed.  Not so with Dropbox, which is a pain.