Can 39;t Download Utorrent On Windows

[Wesley Godinez]

Iam not able to open the actual Dropbox app on my Windows 10 machine. As I gather, the only way to do it is by clicking on the system tray icon. The problem is that the system tray icon doesn't prompt with any menu of any sort on being clicked. It is so frustrating that such a critical functionality of the app is not working.

I followed your direction and it did not work. Up came File Explorer, not legacy menu, with the (expected) listing of only items that were sent to me. I do not want to store any Computer files or backups in Dropbox. I want to use it only to send and receive files. In and out but my decision only to save long term. I do not need to save the contents of my external backup drive in Dropbox.

This drove me nuts. Why is nothing simple on any Windows machine, everything is so **bleep** awkward and cumbersome. I spent hours trying to find Dropbox Preferences on my Win 10 machine. Of all the computers in my business it's only the windows machine that give me grief. I despise them, and their designers. Anyway, trying to figure out Selective Synch eventually lead me here. The info here didn't help but I eventually figured it out. So I thought I'd share my solution, and save you from wasting several hours of your life on what should be a very simple setting, but isn't because windows engineers are thick as bricks when it comes to creating anything remotely intuitive....

You will not find the Preferences where you think it should be...on the Dropbox folder on the file tree, Don't even bother trying to open the app through the Programs list.....no, the only way to get to the actual Dropbox desktop app is thought the teeny tiny up arrow next to the wifi symbol on the bottom right of the screen, then, buried 7 steps later, you'll find the actual Selective Sych option, proven in the attached series of photos.

......Well I was going to upload photos, but they turned out to be the wrong format and then after converting too big, so I gave up, considering I've spent way to much time on this. No wonder everyone here tries to explain everything without images. Images that would replace a thousand words....SO, for selective Synch....Just look for the stupid tiny up arrow next to your Wifi/Time on the lower right of the screen, click that and then click on the Dropbox logo, then your Account (Your Initials or picture), then Preferences, then Synch.

I have tried everything I can think of, I've had two friends who deal with IT problems look at my computer via shared screen with no luck. Since updating to Windows 11 I never noticed Windows Security would not open until recently, it's active and running in the background in Task Manager. I've tried the Powershell and CMD hotfixes, I've reset my PC locally and cloud but I have no restore or recovery points prior to the Windows 11 update. My PC is up to date on all firmware from Microsoft but Windows Security still will not open. Windows Security nor Windows Defender is not listed under my "Installed Apps" or "Default Apps" so I can't try a drop down repair on it. It does show within my Task Manager that there is Windows Defender engine running and in the hidden icons tab it shows Windows Security active. How do you fix this without having to lug your whole PC to a shop?

Repair Windows Security using DISM: Open Command Prompt as administrator and run the following commands: DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /StartComponentCleanup

@ShahbazUbaid my windows license is already expired. and i am not getting any security updates ever since. and that is also the time where i noticed that my windows security app won't open. is it because of my windows license bein expired? do you think if i reactivate my license, it will solve my problem?

@TayDean It's early 2024 and I am in the same boat since the most recent update. In all their wisdom, Microsoft has removed Troubleshooter with this update and wants me to contact tech support. The last time I did that, I was 77 people away from help. I do not have that kind of time.

I've tried all the suggestions here except reinstalling Windows, which is a major hassle and would require hunting down the software I use for work and reinstalling it too. I had to do this once last week because a previous update crashed my computer. It created all manner of work-related issues.

This is really dumb and Microsoft should have fixed this already. But I'm open to more suggestions.

@ShahbazUbaid I appreciate the suggestion, but it didn't work. I'd actually tried it already along with a host of other suggestions found in other places, but thought I'd missed something. I did not.

I'm fairly sure I'm going to have to reinstall Windows again to fix this. It will have to wait until the weekend as I work full-time from home and this has eaten up far too much of my time as it is.

Exceedingly frustrating.

Still, when I run notepad c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, edit the file, and try to save, it won't let me. If I run notepad as administrator first, then open the file, I can save without problems.

But, why, after the measurements I have taken, isn't my user regarded as an administrator user? What am I missing here, in order to make my user an actual administrator (and not just a regular user with some fancy label in user accounts)?

As what was explained to you earlier, you are an Administrator user. You can go through the effort to change this but it comes with a lot of risks. To make a comparison: you do not applications on Linux with "root" regularly but instead elevate with the "su" command or by logging in as "root."

The problem is actually very simple: in Windows 10 the hosts file is read-only by default. This means that even if you can access it with administrative privileges, you still cannot write to it.Furthermore (at least on my machine) this means that editing a copy as others suggested won't work, because it will be read-only too!

Then you can freely edit the hosts file with your favourite text editor (running it as an administrator). Remember to re-set the read-only bit after you're done to prevent other applications from modifying it without your knowledge.

Check your firewall settings. I just recently came across this issue. Only user of my PC and could not get that hosts file to cooperate. Tried to delete and antivirus pops up telling me it has protected me. I use Avira, so I into my real-time protection configuration, check the security tab and "Protect windows hosts file from changes." is on by default. I uncheck, apply, do my change, then check it back and apply. No issue at all once that option was unchecked.

You can use local user manager (C:\windows\system32\lusrmgr.msc) to remove yourself from the users group and only be present in the administrators group - but this may cause more hassle than its worth.

You could always take this one step further and launch cmd as an admin, from cmd - you can launch "taskmgr" and then kill and re-open "explorer.exe". Since taskmgr is running as an admin - processed launched under this context (explorer.exe - WINDOWS!) will also be in a pure administrator context - HOWEVER, this comes with a whole myriad of warnings:

Changing the access rights for the User group to full control for the hosts file allowed me to save it without having to run stuff as administrator. The fact that my account is an administrator, and the administrators had full control of the file didn't allow me to edit it. Makes no sense. Go Windows!

To find out what program is locking the file, I recommend a small utility called Unlocker by Cedrick Collomb. The download is no longer available on the author's website, but I was able to obtain it from Softpedia.

only like a year old and they were having issues with it connecting to peripherals when plugged into a docking station. He sent it back to dell and they sent it back to us. That is all the info I have.

It started blue screening and still does after I ran sfc and some other diagnostics in windows. So since there wasnt really anything installed on the laptop quite yet and I was just going to reinstall a clean windows 10 onto it. When I get to the screen asking where do I want to install windows I get a blank screen and it cannot see the drives.

So the fact that the Windows installation cannot see any drives probably means that it is an issue with the hard drives. But sometimes the drive is not recognized due to settings in the BIOS/UEFI. Ensure that the SATA mode is set correctly (AHCI is commonly used). Also, check if the drive is recognized in the BIOS/UEFI.

Also if the drive has a non-standard partition table or is not formatted correctly, Windows installation might not recognize it. However, this is less likely if the drive was working previously and no changes were made to its format or partition structure.

Agree with all the above - you need to locate and install the correct RAID drivers. Turning back to AHCI also works (if the machine only has one physical drive, non-RAID), although my preference is to try to locate the correct driver, first.

We did also have an issue once with a Dell Precision 5820 tower, where the motherboard was replaced and it could no longer see its drives when trying to re-image. Had to go to into the BIOS and disable VMD:

It randomly stopped working and won't open at all, I can't find SearchHost.exe to check if it's enabled and I am seriously stressed because I can't open certain files or my driver installer without searching

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