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I'm a college student and purchased the Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 CD for $60.

All I really wanted was Word/Powerpoint/Excel/Outlook, but it installs about a half dozen other office products in addition.

Being the curious person that I am, I went through all of these programs to find out what they did.

Groove is apparently some kind of file syncing thing, but now that I've opened it, I can't seem to get it to turn off (i.e. it will always appear in the system tray AND whenever I right click on the desktop a link for groove comes up).

The problem is you can't just uninstall groove, you can only uninstall the entire suite - something I obviously don't want to do. Anybody have an idea?

If it matters, I run windows 7.

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  • I faced this problem too on another computer. Do let us know which method from the 2 answers fixed your problem.
    – kamleshrao
    Nov 15, 2009 at 4:20

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I can't seem to get it to turn off - i.e. it will always appear in the system tray

Download and run Autoruns (Sysinternals' excellent startup manager) and clear the checkbox to disable GrooveMonitor.

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AND whenever I right click on the desktop a link for groove comes up.

Download and run NirSoft's ShellExView, locate and highlight the Groove shell extension and press F7 (or right click on it and select Disable Selected Items).

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Restart your computer ... done and dusted!

Autoruns and ShellExView are freeware and 'portable' (no installation required).

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See this Microsoft article: How to uninstall Groove.

The section you're interested in is probably "How to uninstall Groove 2007 and remove all associated data".

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