On 8/19/2017 3:23 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
On 19/08/2017 00:21, John K.Eason wrote:
In ,
(Roger Mills)
wrote:

All credit to those in this NG who identified it as an issue with
Dropbox. I had Googled the problem extensively, and hadn't come
across the slightest hint that it might have something to do with
Dropbox.
All credit to those in this NG who identified it as an issue with
Dropbox. I had Googled the problem extensively, and hadn't come
across the slightest hint that it might have something to do with
Dropbox.

I'm a long-term member (30+ years) of a private conferencing network
in the UK. It
was one of our members (many of whom are IT professionals) who noticed
the problem
and decided to investigate it thoroughly. He guessed it was a problem
with Office
briefly losing focus so disabled any background programs one by one
until he found
that Dropbox was the culprit. He then went through all its settings
until he found
the one that stopped it! :^)

That's interesting - thanks. When did he discover it? I only experienced
the problem very recently when Dropbox automatically updated itself -
but it sounds from what you say that it could have been an issue for
much longer than that.

I offer the following batch as a DropBox On - Off toggle:

Replace "CALL COLOR.bat Y" with "ECHO" if you do not have Color.bat
Remove "Change CMD Window..." if you do not have Nircmd

:: _DropBox_Stop_Start.bat
@ECHO OFF

:: Change CMD Window title, size, and position
:: ================================================== ========
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS & (TITLE _Dropbox_Stop_Start.bat) & ENDLOCAL
START "" /WAIT "C:\Program Files\nircmd-x64\nircmd.exe" win setsize
stitle "Administrator" 400 200 600 500

TASKLIST | FIND "Dropbox.exe" NUL
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 (
TASKKILL /IM Dropbox.exe /T /F NUL
ECHO( & ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat Y " DropBox is now stopped"
) ELSE (
ECHO( & ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat Y " DropBox is not running"
)

ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat R " Press any key to restart Dropbox" &
PAUSE NUL
START "" C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\Dropbox\bin\Dropbox. exe

ECHO( & CALL COLOR.bat G " Dropbox has restarted" & ECHO( &
Timeout 5

EXIT