BUG: Grouped MS Office 2013 Windows Leave a Frame on the Desktop When Minimised

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MS Office 2013 bypasses the standard Windows UI elements to use it's own. Grouping several windows of any Office application, e.g. Word leaves a translucent frame around 8px wide on the desktop when the Group is minimised.

Clicking the mouse inside or outside the frame does nothing, but clicking on the frame itself causes the Group to re-appear on the desktop. This does not happen with 'standard' applications which use the standard Windows UI elements.

As you can imagine, if you have Groups of Outlook, Excel and Word documents all active at the same time you get multiple frame outlines on the desktop when they are minimised and it is easy to re-activate them accidentally with an inadvertent mouse click on the desktop. Annoying.


Screenshot Section of Desktop Showing Bug

Screenshot of desktop section showing frame bug.

I'm using the latest 1803 version of Windows 10, although it also happens with 1709 and the latest 1.17 version of Groupy.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

I have forwarded your problem to Stardock Support team for their assistant. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patient.

 

Basj

Stardock Community Assistant.

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Additionally, I have now had to exclude all Outlook 2013 Windows from being automatically grouped by Groupy as when doing a manual Send/Receive, the progress pop-up causes all the windows in the group to be collapsed to the width of the pop-up. Really annoying.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Geoff_H, reply 2

Additionally, I have now had to exclude all Outlook 2013 Windows from being automatically grouped by Groupy as when doing a manual Send/Receive, the progress pop-up causes all the windows in the group to be collapsed to the width of the pop-up. Really annoying.
End of Geoff_H's quote

Hello,

I have forwarded your problem to Stardock Support team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

 

Basj

Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

It's been a month now since I first raised this and so far total silence.

Any sign of a fix, or at least some kind of acknowledgement that a fix is being worked on?

 

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

I am afraid we are not easily able to reproduce / test your issue as MS Office 2013 is such a dated suite.  I cant say when, or if, it will be addressed.

What you might try is to eliminate other possible 3rd party conflict and try a 'clean boot':

https://forums.stardock.com/488142/groupy-support-faq#cleanboot

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager