Not a route open to us as we have at least five shared users and of different folders on my account alone. Trying to untangle this will mean that many batch files will not work any more.

At the moment the main two complaints are that the interface and alerts went silent a short time ago, and the only changes have been imposed by Dropbox so in my view the whacky now you see it now you don't accessibility is in their court, fairly and squarely, Granted I could remove the program reinstall it and probably either end up worse or no further forward, as if they have tweaked the registry, they have a track record of not removing changes when they do an uninstall.
There are a lot of improvements they could have made in the old system such as sorting as is done in the mobile app, but chose not to do it seems in favour of a flashy new interface off of the tray icon.
Will I soon hear tht they  will stop supporting Windows 7? They cut off XP for no good reason given the security could still be protected by third party software after all, just one assumes because they wanted to use a different compiler, the exact same problem will occur to Python soon.
Brian