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