If you’re using Dropbox client but don’t want the Dropbox icon pinned to the navigation pane, here is a registry edit to remove the icon.
Add or Remove Dropbox from Navigation Pane
Open a Command Prompt window. To remove Dropbox icon from the navigation pane, type the following commands and press ENTER:
REG ADD "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}\ShellFolder" /V Attributes /T REG_DWORD /D 4035969101 /F
REG ADD "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}\ShellFolder" /V Attributes /T REG_DWORD /D 4035969101 /F
To add the Dropbox icon back, type these commands:
REG ADD "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}\ShellFolder" /V Attributes /T REG_DWORD /D 4034920525 /F
REG ADD "HKCU\SOFTWARE\Classes\WOW6432Node\CLSID\{E31EA727-12ED-4702-820C-4B6445F28E1A}\ShellFolder" /V Attributes /T REG_DWORD /D 4034920525 /F
Logoff and login back, or do a clean restart of the Explorer shell.
Setting the “Attributes” value data to f090004d (Decimal: 4035969101) removes the Dropbox shell folder icon, and f080004d (4034920525) adds it back. If you’re using Windows 10 32-bit, you can skip the commands involving the “WOW6432Node” registry key.
Automate using Batch file
Download dropbox-add-remove.zip, unzip and run the included batch files which runs the above commands and restarts Explorer automatically.
That’s it!
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Hi Ramesh, any idea how I can adapt this script to have stack storage from TransIP in the side bar as well? I have google drive, dropbox and onedrive there already, just missing one now!
Thanks,
Tom
@Tom: You can use the example here: https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/pin-google-drive-navigation-pane/
Change the {GUID} string. And then modify the “TargetFolderPath” and icon values in the registry after applying the file. Hope that helps.
Excelente! funciona correctamente.
Applied this fix but Dropbox icon keeps coming back after all Windows updates. Have re-applied the fix many times. Anyway to make the fix permanent?
Thanks