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Re: To all xp users who were running dropbox

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No, basically, as the first thing it does is updates itself then logs you out. You can still use the online parts, but not the desktop applications. I did try to find out why but never got a straight answer, but the suspicion is that they are using more modern compilers for the C code and don't want to have the fuss of putting in special switches to create xp compatible code which may well run slower.

I did suggest allowing access of older versions but their very vague reply suggested that features that will be added could not be supported in the older versions of the app.

In other words, they just don't want to be bothered, is how I read it.
Brian

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----- Original Message -----
From: "nasrin khaksar" <nasrinkhaksar3@gmail.com>
To: <nvda@nvda.groups.io>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [nvda] To all xp users who were running dropbox


hi.
i heard someone that dropbox does not support xp anymore.
there is a question.
is it possible to use previous versions of dropbox on xp without updating it?
thanks.

On 9/9/16, Brian's Mail list account <bglists@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
Either uninstall it or stop it from running at start up. although you
cannot log in the software still seems to be updating and trying to do
things on my computer, resulting in some cases in excessive processor load
from msse and freezing of nvda after it tries to run after an update.
I simply used msconfig to turn it off dropbox that is, at start up and
then restarted and have had no further issues. Its verynaughty of them not
to properly disable the product when they cut off xp users.
Brian

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