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Excel; Word; PowerPoint Intermittently Show Tabs even Though they are Excluded

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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint intermittently show tabs even though they are included in the "Block applications" setting. The "Only allow specified applications to be in a Group" is not checked.

In the Registry under Groupy>Groupy.ini>Groupy>AddTab
winword.exe; excel.exe; and powerpnt.exe all have the Value=1

In the Registry under Groupy>Groupy.ini>Groupy>AlwaysShowTabs
winword.exe; excel.exe; and powerpnt.exe all have the Value=1

Should these apps even be in these registry locations; or should they have a different Value=?

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top


Word, Excel, and PowerPoint intermittently show tabs even though they are included in the "Block applications" setting. The "Only allow specified applications to be in a Group" is not checked.

In the Registry under Groupy>Groupy.ini>Groupy>AddTab
winword.exe; excel.exe; and powerpnt.exe all have the Value=1

In the Registry under Groupy>Groupy.ini>Groupy>AlwaysShowTabs
winword.exe; excel.exe; and powerpnt.exe all have the Value=1

Should these apps even be in these registry locations; or should they have a different Value=?

I believe that those are placed there by selecting this option on install:
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(Note: This option only shows on a "clean/first" install, it will not show if you just uninstall/reinstall)

You can force Groupy2 to seem like a brand new install, thus giving you that option to set to No by changing this reg entry to 0:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Groupy\Groupy.ini\Groupy\SetupDefaultRules

This should fix that conflict

Paul Scroggins
Associate Technical Support Analyst
 

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Question, does the registry really need to be cleaned? What cleaner is recommended?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting TPScroggins, reply 2


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Word, Excel, and PowerPoint intermittently show tabs even though they are included in the "Block applications" setting. The "Only allow specified applications to be in a Group" is not checked.

In the Registry under Groupy>Groupy.ini>Groupy>AddTab
winword.exe; excel.exe; and powerpnt.exe all have the Value=1

In the Registry under Groupy>Groupy.ini>Groupy>AlwaysShowTabs
winword.exe; excel.exe; and powerpnt.exe all have the Value=1

Should these apps even be in these registry locations; or should they have a different Value=?



I believe that those are placed there by selecting this option on install:
image

(Note: This option only shows on a "clean/first" install, it will not show if you just uninstall/reinstall)

You can force Groupy2 to seem like a brand new install, thus giving you that option to set to No by changing this reg entry to 0:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\Groupy\Groupy.ini\Groupy\SetupDefaultRules

This should fix that conflict

Paul Scroggins
Associate Technical Support Analyst
 

I did a clean install of 2.12 last week after completely removing all Registry entries. I said no to the prompt you refer to here. Can I change the values for the entries I listed above; or completely remove those entries?