Startup Dropbox

All of a sudden Dropbox has started loading at boot.
It's version 60.4.107.
I've unticked "load at startup" in Preferences, and disabled the two
update Services entries. But it still loads.

It started only a few days ago.
Is anybody else seeing this? Or anybody know how to stop it?

Ed

Ed Cryer wrote:
All of a sudden Dropbox has started loading at boot.
It's version 60.4.107.
I've unticked "load at startup" in Preferences, and disabled the two
update Services entries. But it still loads.

It started only a few days ago.
Is anybody else seeing this? Or anybody know how to stop it?

Ed

How about your Task Scheduler.

Anything in there ?

That's how the Update Orchestrator gets to run, is
by filling the Task Scheduler with triggers and
stuff to do. And the USOSVC in effect, kicks
off Windows Update.

Paul

Il giorno Tue 30 Oct 2018 01:40:28p, *Ed Cryer* ha inviato su
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Or anybody know how to stop it?


try with autoruns

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...loads/autoruns

run it as administrator

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Paul wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
All of a sudden Dropbox has started loading at boot.
It's version 60.4.107.
I've unticked "load at startup" in Preferences, and disabled the two
update Services entries. But it still loads.

It started only a few days ago.
Is anybody else seeing this? Or anybody know how to stop it?

Ed

How about your Task Scheduler.

Anything in there ?

That's how the Update Orchestrator gets to run, is
by filling the Task Scheduler with triggers and
stuff to do. And the USOSVC in effect, kicks
off Windows Update.

Â*Â* Paul

You've done it again for me, Paul. Thanks a million. I didn't think to
look in there, but there were two tasks.

I'm wondering how they got in there.
I did a system restore going back 3 days, and the problem disappeared.
But it reappeared later the same day, and I'd done no updates.

I'm wondering if a complete re-install of Dropbox would be beneficial.

Ed

In message 12,
Ammammata writes:
Il giorno Tue 30 Oct 2018 01:40:28p, *Ed Cryer* ha inviato su
alt.windows7.general il messaggio news cosa ha scritto:

Or anybody know how to stop it?


try with autoruns

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sys...loads/autoruns

run it as administrator

+1. That covers Task Scheduler items as well as lots of others. (And -
like several of the other startup controller utilities - it has
"disable" as well as "remove" options [just untick the box], so you can
try things, without removing them altogether which you might not want to
do if you don't know how they got there so don't know how to put them
back if their removal has undesired effects.)
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No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
- Penny Mayes, UMRA, 2014-August

Il giorno Tue 30 Oct 2018 04:20:06p, *J. P. Gilliver (John)* ha inviato su
alt.windows7.general il messaggio news cosa ha scritto:

MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

is this sort of Klingon? ;-)

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In message 12,
Ammammata writes:
Il giorno Tue 30 Oct 2018 04:20:06p, *J. P. Gilliver (John)* ha inviato su
alt.windows7.general il messaggio news cosa ha scritto:

MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

is this sort of Klingon? ;-)

No, it's a geek code - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code; this
particular one is of the UMRA flavour, see http://bit.ly/2DaKQ72
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