I am using multiple Desktops on Windows 10 (the Windows-internal feature) to have two separate workspaces. It happens repeatedly that I have a bunch of (Explorer) windows grouped together on Desktop 2 and either one or no (grouped) Explorer windows on Desktop 1, and after some time the grouped Explorer windows from Desktop 2 appear on Desktop 1. Groupy seems to mess up and groups those together with Explorer windows from Desktop 1 or just puts them there in case there were no Explorer windows on Desktop 1 before.
Can you verify this? And best of all, even fix it 😉?
Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues.
What version of windows 10 are you running ( type in WINVER in run )
and what version of Groupy are you running ?
AzDudeStardock Community Assistant
Hi AzDude,
I am on Build 18309 (it's the latest Insider Preview). Groupy is the latest as well, 1.1.8.
Thanks in advance
Eno
Hi again,
any updates on this? This happens reproducibly all the time and across computers. If I have, say, two Explorer windows tabbed on Desktop 1 and four Explorer windows on Desktop 2, after a certain amount of time three of the four windows on Desktop 2 wander to Desktop 1, so I have to relocate and re-attach them to the out-singled one on Desktop 2. That's a bit messy.
Thanks!
I don't think Stardock support MS Insider build. Since its not finalize official MS Release. I believe the latest official MS Build is OS Build 17763.253. Maybe you can revert back to that version and see if the problem still there.
Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant
Hi Basj,
it's highly speculative dragging the problem towards the Insider build, and I suppose Stardock didn't even think of testing out the bug on a regular build? As far as I know from studying the logs, there haven't been changes to the Explorer.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to go back from Insider builds to a regular one, so I can't revert my machines in order to prove this bug exists .
With the latest version, this un- and re-grouping across multiple Desktops on Windows has gotten even more drastic - it usually happened after a few hours, but now happens almost instantly and constantly - Explorer windows from Desktop 1 receive Explorer windows from Desktop 2, so they are grouped together, and mostly others are ungrouped and moved across Desktops. Despite your notice you don't support Insider Preview versions of Windows, can your reproduce it? Or are bug reports simply discarded if they come from Previews, no matter if they are related to the Windows version or not ?
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.
Sorry to hear you are having trouble.
Does this happen in the Windows Sandbox?
I will look at it on both the Insider and release build but I have never seen it on gen release nor have we had any other such reports.
Respectfully, I am tempted to ask; you are accustomed to finding broken functionality for 3rd party software on Windows Insider builds, yes? If you are like most of us that have, it's not often my first instinct to blame a 3rd party developer - especially when it was working as expected prior to MS chaning something every 6 months. Do you have a different outlook on these matters? Have you ever found that something that was broken in Windows insider builds is fixed by changes MS made (in time for a gen release) and not by the 3rd party developer?
----------------Sean DrohanStardock Customer Service Manager
Hi Sean,
thanks for getting back so swiftly. I am using different sets of Explorer windows on both Desktops to handle different stuff, and it doesn't always happen LITERALLY immediately, and moreover, I am not able to observe what exactly triggers that mixing and re-grouping of Explorer windows. So it might take a bit more than a sitting and waiting for it to happen . #jussayin .
As for the Sandbox, I would have to try, since I didn't ever use it before. Thanks for taking a look.
Concerning the respect - I totally get your point. It did exactly what I had in mind - to get your attention.
From my point of view, the flaw here isn't that I accuse 3rd party developers of things malfunctioning on a Microsoft Beta product that might be unstable in itself (which it barely is), and I didn't point that out at all or accuse you of that. What I did was making clear that I didn't like the way you handled my report - by simply stating that you don't support Insider Previews and not at least trying to verify that this might well exist due to different reasons (Microsoft, as pointed out, didn't change anything major on their Explorer, which is to follow within the next months or years, though). That you didn't hear from it before might just be down to that this is supposedly a rare use case - using two (virtual) Desktops and then having groups or single Explorer windows on each Desktop, constantly switching between the two Desktops.
Also, I can confirm that Microsoft does change things, break a few and then repair them for their next release (be it the official or the Preview ones), yes.
Thanks for taking care of it, at last .
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