Please tell me how to *really* stop Dropbox from starting automatically, even the secret whatever-it-does-to muck-around-with-my-system, or I am removing the software from my computer. Don't control my system while pretending to give me options to disable the software. My Windows 10 deactivated itself overnight, I have the original product key which I tried to use to activate it again and that didnt work. If Dropbox has a 'Start Dropbox on system startup' option, it should honor that options. *I had told it not to start automatically! Of course it will have a problem-I haven't mounted its settings drive yet. Yet still when I boot Windows 10, Dropbox throws up a dialog informing me that it has failed to start. So my question is: Is there a way to reactivate it When trying to use some Windows activators it most times says: 'TAP Adapter fail' or something like that. I can still use it but that big fat watermark in the bottom right corner is really annoying.

I have disabled 'Start Dropbox on system startup'. So, im not happy about that fact, Windows 10 deactivated itself. I have moved the Dropbox configuration files (via an NTFS symbolic link) to that drive, but I make sure that I mount the drive before starting the Dropbox desktop application. I have certain drives that aren't mounted when the system starts. When I first installed Dropbox 3.14.7 I thought it it was well-behaved, because it offered an option to disabled 'Start Dropbox on system startup'. This is happening to me on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.