Groupy 2: Only allow Explorer to use Groupy

Hello,
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Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Hello, 

I cannot reproduce what you are seeing when the rule is applied:

https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/2023-07-06_10-53-46.mp4

Notice in it that the tab did show once I unchecked 'only allow' but still showed after I checked it again - this is not entirely unexpected.

If you really wanted to ensure that tab options were not displayed for Excel, uncheck:

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Your's acted a little different than mine though. I am using Office 365 Excel (Office16). I do not have a green bar at the top.

As soon as I clicked on "Save", the Tabs showed up at the top. I did not Un-check the box in Groupy like you did in the video, that made your tabs show up. Mine showed up immediately as soon as I clicked on Save. Closing my XLS file and re-opening it did not show the tabs however. It was only on Saving the document that it did this anomoly I think. I can't check now that I did your edit and can't figure out how to undo it to double check (see question below).

Your edit though did solve the issue however, un-checking the option for "Always show tabs for this type of window". It no longer uses tabs as it should be. so thank you!

This poses a new question.

If you wanted to revert this, where is that setting maintained? I do not see it in the Groupy settings anywhere that Excel is set to have this option Un-checked.

** Please add in a Global option to Only allow Explorer to use Groupy, instead of having to hunt down Explorer.exe, that would be more aggressive to solely use Explorer, and Explorer only.

Thank you!! Loving the Groupy program for sure

I would have to hunt for a regkey setting (can can when we are off break) but the way right now would be to group two excel sheets to gain access to the setting again:

https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/2023-07-06_11-29-29.mp4

Thanks for the feedback.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Have you had any luck yet for the backup regedit in case need to revert? Assuming you forgot about this post but thats fine. I am working heavy with Word now that I am in the Sept. season. Opening MS Word I had to do the same edit.

Please tell the team to please please have a toggle to have a Global setting to have Groupy to ONLY have Explorer utilize the functionality to make this whole thing work easier without all this editing and checkbox'ing. It is a simple thing, to emulate how Windows 11 works really, but it actually makes me want to just buy a new computer and just get Windows 11, because I will never remember how I even did this if I need to reinstall.

Hello,

Registry:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Groupy\Groupy.ini\Groupy\AlwaysShowTabs

If the exe exists here, it will show the tabs always.  Deleting the key (exe there) will have it not:

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Appreciated, thank you!

You are most welcome.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

I had to uninstall Groupy (Groupy 2) today. I finally had to bite the bullet. I had a audio program that it did not want to play nice with, even though the ONLY setting I had in Groupy 2 was to use explorer.exe to use tabs. I also had new windows being created not within the same window, and dragging them into the original window I wanted it to be in was not working at all. I do not know what happened in the last update, but it broke it I think. It is now more problems for me than it is worth. This program would of been great if it had the innate ability to ONLY explicitly use Windows Explorer only to be allowed to use tabs and completely and explicitly ignore all other programs being used, but it does not. Thanks though for the help.