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Annoying pop-ups when I open my desktop app. Can I turn them off?

I have a similar problem to the one others have raised about this annoying pop up wwhen I open dropbox, only mine says Search Dropbox followed by upgrade, there is no arrow as has been suggested and it's blooming annoying, unhelpful, unwanted and un needed.

Please help, desktop pc with Win 11, Dropbox free version

Grahame

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Megan

Hey there, @Grahame31, let's see what we can find about this together.

As a first step, are you seeing this on the Dropbox site, or desktop app?

Can you also hover over the small Dropbox icon in the system tray and let us know the Dropbox app version you're using?

Lastly, could you please send us a screenshot of the pop-up?

Thanks!

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Grahame31

I dont understand you, how can I have an app on a desktop, I thought they were for phones, tablets etc

Version 246.4.3513

whats a screenshot?

Rich

how can I have an app on a desktop, I thought they were for phones, tablets etc

App is short for application. You have applications on nearly all compute devices. It became more common to use App for mobile devices after Apple called their store the App Store.

whats a screenshot?

In short, a saved picture of the screen or a portion of the screen. You can take one on Windows by hitting the Prt Scr key (Print Screen).