Yes, thank you both for breaking this down.  We now have the issue logged for internal review.

Internal Ref: ODNT-10112

Best regards,

Adam McGuinness
Stardock Support Specialist

Great! Thank you! Let me know if I can help in any other way.

I am not sure what to provide you that would help. I have 5 programs in my Group. When I start my PC, I have to open each one of these programs, then open my saved Groupy shortcut and these programs will be added to my 1 group. 2 of them require that I add their color. I just click to the right of the farthest right tab and it will show that saved tab's color and I click on it and the color is added. My gut feeling is there is something wrong with how Groupy 2 saves group sets. We have to manually copy them as saving them within Groupy 2 isn't working. I do get this message when launching my Groupy 2 shortcut. I have updated my shortcut but the error message continues.

Quoting masterblaster73, reply 28

 I do get this message when launching my Groupy 2 shortcut. I have updated my shortcut but the error message continues.

That is because the Discord version changed.  If you go to this directory:

\AppData\Local\Discord

It has Discord.exe in the version.  Since Discord updates seemingly every single day (true story) it makes creating shortcuts to it (or a Groupy file that references where it was prior) nearly impossible. 

You wont get that error message if you edit the groupy save file to match the version. 

The alternate is to have a group file that looks like this

[Group]
GroupCount=2
GroupLeft=255
GroupTop=305
GroupRight=2561
GroupBottom=1529
GroupMax=0
Locked=0

[GroupyEntry1]
StoreApp=1
OwnerProcess=Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App
APPID=Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App
NewTabName=
RunElevated=0
NoPatternMatching=1
Target=Microsoft.WindowsNotepad_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App
MatchingClass=Notepad

[GroupyEntry2]
OwnerProcess=C:\Users\seand\AppData\Local\Discord\Update.exe
APPID=com.squirrel.Discord.Discord
NewTabName=
RunElevated=0
NoPatternMatching=0
CommandLine=--processStart Discord.exe
WorkingDirectory=C:\Users\seand\AppData\Local\Discord
Target=C:\Users\seand\AppData\Local\Discord\Update.exe
MatchingClass=Chrome_WidgetWin_1

The issue there is that since groupy is starting, it likely will not group but will open (every time).  If you can live with that, having to manually group Discord each time, then you should be good. 

Hi There,

I have noticed this issue recently.

When I launch and any app they are now all loading into the one group, which I did not happen before and is not what I want.

This includes both Microsoft apps and independent ones.

Edition    Windows 11 Enterprise
Version    23H2
Installed on    ‎25/‎03/‎2025
OS build    22631.5624
Experience    Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1106.0

Groupy: 2.2

Thanks
Vincent

W11 

Coming from Groupy v1, just upgraded to Groupy v2. Several things I noticed:

1. CPU load of GroupyCtrl increases whenever the mouse is moved, even more so when the mouse uses a higher polling rate (kike 1 kHz). This also happens when the "hover over title bar" option is disabled and no Groupy group is currently on-screen.

Mouse moving:

Mouse not moving:

Furthermore Groupy's CPU load increases over time. Here is what it looks like after a fresh start:

2. "Show only one combined button" produces multiple problems:

- Not properly restoring window(s) when the taskbar icon is pressed multiple times. This behaves erratic, sometime a window group is shown as empty and cannot be selected from the taskbar icon, sometimes all windows are resized to minimum.

And when this option is chosen then it breaks the other "Show only active window" option until the window group / application is restarted.

3. Wrong application placement below the Groupy bar. This does not happen in Groupy v1:

When Groupy is used with PDF X-Change Editor then it places the application window too high below Groupy's bar. This is fixed by causing redrawing of the whole windows group, like minimize/restore/maximize or switching tabs "above vs. integrated" options (X-Change always uses "above").

 vs. 

4. Locking a group still seems to interfere with loading saved groups!? That's been a thing for many years already.

I also wonder if there is no way for Groupy to restore its tab order so that I don't have to move tabs manually every time I load multiple windows (in arbitrary load order)?

Yea, I love this program but it’s quirky. Right now I have Steam, Discord, file manager, and a specific notepad. When I tab over to open, all programs open in their window and go back properly except for notepad. It opens full screen with no other tabs. My only option is to close it which closes all the program tabs in Groupy 2. I have to restart Groupy 2.

I am back to v1 for the time being.

What does V2 have that V1 doesn't? Do the colors work correctly in V1?

Groupy 2.30 beta has been released today.  For details, please see:

https://forums.stardock.com/538489/groupy-230-beta-release

As always, thank you for your time, feedback, and support.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

Windows 10 Pro 22H2 OS Build 19045.6332

Group 2.2

Currently I have group all turned off and only use it for select applications. One of which is Putty. It groups my Putty windows together like it's supposed to (same as old Group). However if I close/exit any of those grouped windows then the remainder become impossible to access. I can't alt+tab to them, I can't maximize them from the task bar (which they do show up on), can't restore them, nothing. All I can do is end task them and re-open them.

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. If I understand your issue correctly, I can not reproduce your issue on my system. I group two putty windows together. Close one of them, the other still stay open and I can still see and use it. 

Would like to suggest to make sure Groupy was installed properly. Please try, uninstall Groupy, reboot immediately (important), download latest version, v2.3 Beta, available in your account product download page: https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products. Install it, reboot immediately again. Retest it and report back.

If the issue still there, please post a video showing us the issue so we understand your issue better.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Uninstall, reboot, reinstall did not help. Uninstall, reboot, install 2.30 beta also did not help. I am sorry but I am not posting a video of my desktop, I don't care to share that with the world. I've been as clear as I can be on what's happening.

They may be hidden, but still accessible. You can try to activate one via Taskbar and then press ALT-Space to enter their system menu. If they are not marked as maximized by the system then you can press M (move) and then press any cursor key once. After that the window will appear at your mouse-cursor position and move with the mouse-cursor until you press ENTER.

Have a look at all the keyboard shortcuts in the system menu and try different things.

Of course that's no solution or even viable workaround, just something to try to see what's happening. Personally I am still back to Groupy 1 due to the increased CPU load of v2 I reported earlier about.

They're not hidden or off screen. If I hover over them in the task bar they show up on screen where they're supposed to be. You can't really do anything with them that way, but they are there. As soon as I try anything like maximize, move, etc... they disappear.

I'm probably going to end up going back to Groupy 1 as well if they don't fix this fast. This is the second "upgrade" for a Stardock app that I've been through this year that's ended up being an enormous pain. I've been reporting a problem with multiplicity 4 pro for months now and they've done nothing.

Here's something interesting I just found, if I close the putty window with the X it doesn't make the others inaccessible. But if I close it via typing 'exit' then it does.

The Groupy 2 beta has been updated.  For details, please see:

https://forums.stardock.com/538489/get;3978214

As always, thank you for your time, feedback and support. 

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

I too am seeing this.  I can set cusom colours to tabs, save the group, then upon restart, custom colours no longer present.  System was Windows 10 x64, fully-patched.  Now upgraded to Windows 11 x64, fully-patched and still doing it.

Have you installed the above update? I had the problem you described and others that were all fixed with update Groupy2_2.3.0.2. Updating it through the program didn't pick it up for me. I had to manually update it.