RE: GrooveMonitor.exe - StartUp importance

[Schultz IT Solutions]

Hi,

well, if you want to use Groove and keep synchronized with your partners,
then let the groovemonitor run. If you are not interested in Groove,
uninstall it and the groovemonitor.exe will be deleted as well (and of
course) not running anymore.

regards
Ruediger Schultz

--
Groove Support @ Schultz IT Solutions

Our experience with Groove (since 2000) makes us one of the leading
consulting companies in Europe - call on us.

"uemeulo" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think that a discussion about why someone would like or not to have as
> much control as he can on what is running on his computer, could be out of
> this newsgroup's interests. I just sought for an answer in a "technical"
> question, that could be proven useful to me.
>
> "Schultz IT Solutions" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > why should you wish to delete an registry entry created during installation?
> >
> > kind regards
> > Ruediger Schultz
> >
> > --
> > Groove Support @ Schultz IT Solutions
> >
> > Our experience with Groove (since 2000) makes us one of the leading
> > consulting companies in Europe - call on us.
> >
> >
> > "uemeulo" wrote:
> >
> > > After I installed Groove 2007, I noticed that in Registry, under the Key
> > > "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
> > > a new String Value has been created with the name "GrooveMonitor".
> > > I would like to know if by deleting this value, Groove won't work as it
> > > should.

[Ashok Hingorani]

the groovemonitor is a service utility that tracks groove behavour and
creates reports for error reporting to MS - it really does not get in the way
so though you can remove it and still run groove, i would best leave it there
for groove to call when it needs - it does not always load up and is
triggered by errors in the system

what would be nice would be to discover a UI to it like with the older CSM
utility that let us users see inner processes and errors, though they were
mostly to help with COM tool development.

rgds

ashok
--
groove evangelist :-)
www.apwiz.com

[Steve248]

(Schultz IT Solutions wrote) ...> if you want to use Groove and keep

synchronized with your partners, then let the groovemonitor run.

In my opinion, this reply is USELSS. Groove Support seems very arrogant,
and IS NOT interested in answering the users' question. Rather, he is "take
it or not". I would shy away any product from this company whenever I can.

/Steve

[GregT]

I also have a problem with GrooveMonitor: It installed when I installed
Office 2007; I have since gone back to Office 2003 (which is much better in
many ways), but GrooveMonitor does not want to dye. If I delete the
appropriate startup line using Msconfig, or hunt and kill in registry, it
keeps reappearing (and pointing to a nonexisting file...).
Any one knows a way to get rid of this arrogance?
Thanks,
GregT

[Laurel]

I met the same prob! Every time, I need to kill groovemonitor process myself~

[GregT]

Please, do help me to get rid of GrooveMonitor - if you can:
I am NOT a user of Groove. It installed "by accident" when I tried Office
2007, and did not go away when I uninstall Office 2007. All traces of
Office12 I could find are now deleted from my computer, but the startup line
for GrooveMonitor (pointing to a nonexistent file) reappear in the registry
after I delete it.
Would anyone know what creates it?
Thanks,
GregT

[Roadhunter]

"Ashok Hingorani" wrote:

> the groovemonitor is a service utility that tracks groove behavour and
> creates reports for error reporting to MS - it really does not get in the way
> so though you can remove it and still run groove, i would best leave it there
> for groove to call when it needs - it does not always load up and is
> triggered by errors in the system

This is incorrect. By virtue of the fact that groovemonitor.exe is located
in hklm\software\mircorosoft\windows\current version\run, it MUST always
"load up". That's where microsoft places programs that run at startup EVERY
time. No, it does not get in the way, unless you consider using over 2mb of
RAM getting in the way.

[GregT]

My question was how to get rid of the GrooveMonitor, not what it does.
Deleting the corresponding entry in Registry does not help - it reappears as
if by magic. I am not a user of groove not any of the monitoring, and I like
to clean my computer of things unnecessar.
The GrooveMonitor.exe first appeared on my computer after I tried a vertion
of Office 2007 which was subsequently uninstalled.
If anyone knows how to kill this pest, please help.
Thank you,
GregT

[mhorton]

Why are there always people that want to tell you why you should do or not do
something instead of answering the question of HOW to do... So annoying.
Anyway I was able to remove this from my computer by going into Add/Remove
programs, choosing Office 2007, clicking Change (not remove), and changing
Groove to "Not available." Since you have already removed Office 2007 and
this got left behind, the only way to get rid of it now may be to reinstall
Office, then do what I suggested.

BTW, it used almost 5 meg on my system, added another item to the
right-click menu, and my computer locked up while typing in a forum for my
online class making me lose work (me=angry). It hasn't locked up in many
months, and the most recent change was installing Office 2007. No other
Office app was running, so I suspect this worthless tag-along to be the
culprit.

[GregT]

Fully agree with you on all counts.
I still wonder what is it that keeps adding the (nonexisting)
Groovemonitor.exe to the registry! Probably some Office 2007 relique that
Microscoft did not bother to properly uninstall!
GregT

[SgtRock]

I totally agree with Steve248, it was a very arrogant and snobby remark and i
will not be using this groove software in the near future, as there are many
people who are having problems even after uninstalling the program. Plus, i
find its a really silly name, sounds like someone was trying to be "hip" but
got stuck in the 80's.

[AaronC]

Greg,

Simple fix... Download "Autoruns"... just simply google "autoruns" and the
first result is from a microsoft page. Click here, this is a microsoft
approved program. Scroll down and find the download link and save the file
and just run autoruns. Thiss is very similar to regcleaner and other like
utilities. Plus you can run it from a USB Memory Stick or CD or whatever....
it doesn't install into the system at all... just examines it and allows you
to delete or disable items.

Aaron
Sacramento, CA

[spiche]

Hello

Why we should Remove any Registry entry after a software installation? For
the same reason i remove any self updater, any widget or faster helper in the
Registry.To have a faster Computer. Why is every Software Company adding
something in the Startup!?? To slow down your Computer and to make us go
crazy. After that these Company are selling you software to Optimize your
Pc!! Good Marketing Tactics...

www.Computer-Repair-Tips.com

"Schultz IT Solutions" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> why should you wish to delete an registry entry created during installation?
>
> kind regards
> Ruediger Schultz
>
> --
> Groove Support @ Schultz IT Solutions
>
> Our experience with Groove (since 2000) makes us one of the leading
> consulting companies in Europe - call on us.
>
>

[Achbar@discussions.microsoft.com Cyphis Achbar]

[Achbar@discussions.microsoft.com Cyphis Achbar]

Uemeulo,

What specifically does the GrooveMonitor do? Second, why was this
deemed as important to be added to the startup?

--Cyphis

[Net+ A+@discussions.microsoft.com Joe Net+ A+]

Look, if you guys are 'technical' at all as you put it, you would know that
when you install an application, there are registry keys that are created to
run the app on your pc. Now if you want to use (you installed the Groove
application) the groove application, chances are you dont want to erase the
key that the installation has created.

You pretty much said, "I want to constantly be sharing information using
groove but i dont want it to monitor changes." That doesnt make much sence
to me and im sure when you asked your question, the tech guy was thinking,
you installed it, why dont you want to use it, i guess he just wants to
collect apps on his computer and never use them.

Now granted, you may not use it all the time, BUT, you are in the part of
the registry where startup items are defined, to me, you knew the answer to
your own question...in fact the tech guy was probably wondering if you were
seriouse.

I dont think he was being arrogant, i think he probably answers alot of
question and that was an ID 10 T issue!

If you want to synchronize with your "partners" as he put it then
groovemonitor must be running. After all the name is fairly
obvious....Groove (the app you wanted to use) and Monitor (One that
admonishes, cautions, or reminds) meaning that it is waiting for changes to
allow the user of the program to be updated with whatever your working with.

uemeulo" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think that a discussion about why someone would like or not to have as
> much control as he can on what is running on his computer, could be out of
> this newsgroup's interests. I just sought for an answer in a "technical"
> question, that could be proven useful to me.
>

[dextorion]

So.. How do we remove it?

[Tweeky]

"Roadhunter" wrote:

I think the original question was valid and the Arrogant *hole who answered
it obviously has a vested inyerest in groovemaster.

I found myself here because I had no idea what the application was or did. I
had to read every reply to get an understanding of what it is.
whether or not it can or cannot sit in the background is not the issue,
despite all the MICROSOFT Rhetoric and crap about Vista starting faster like
everything else, its a fantasy and will remain a fantasy while the fill up
the start menu with all this crappy stuff.

All it needed was an explanation to what the app did and how to get take it
out the start menu if you wanted to.

it's no longer in my start menu or in any other part of the computer thanks
to Eraser. thats one less app to slow down the startup.

[Ted]

Excuse me, but you are providing false/inaccurate information. You cannot
uninstall Groove from the 'Add/Remove Programs' menu. More importantly, I
was never asked whether I wanted to install it in the first place (could be
my install version of course, but think other have also been duped). The
only way I could get rid of it was by manually deleting the files, manually
removing it from the Startup, and manually ending the process.

No matter what your intended purpose for this software, it is still
malware!! Malware - software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer
system without the owner's informed consent. (via Wikipedia)

[Kiko]

It is actually much simpler than it seams. I googled it and found the solution:

"Hello, this thread is to address the program in Microsoft Office 2007
Enterprise Edition named Groove Monitor. The subject i will talk about is
removing Groove from your PC. There are a lot of inquiries on the Web as to
how can it be disabled or removing the bundled program. when installing
Office 2007 I was aware that Groove had been installed but as time went on I
began to realized that it showed up in System Configuration Utilities startup
tab, but when you stop it from starting some say that it mysteriously
restarts which i had never noticed, which we know you can stop the program
from running at startup through the System Configuration Utility, so i began
looking for solutions as to how I could totally disable Groove, I did a
Google search for the solution but didn't come across a good solution as to
how it could be done.

This is when the solution came to me and this is how to do it, many are
looking for the solution when it is right under there nose, some are looking
for a Groove Monitor entry in Add and Remove which there is no entry because
Groove is bundled into Office, it is as simple as going to (Add and
Remove>Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007>Change (not Remove)>Check the Add or
Remove Features button>Go to the Microsoft Office Groove entry then expand
then check Not Available), there will be a red X placed there, then click
continue, then let the removal process do it's thing and you will no longer
have Groove on your PC."

I found this answer here: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=529884

[nossy]

Nice reply Kiko,

instead of whining why to remove or not at least a poste that actualy
explains how to get rid of the process ;)

[Commandr]

Groove is a file-sharing utility for sharing Office 2007 files over a
network. GrooveMonitor is the actual process which watches for requests from
remote office installations. Groove is installed by default when you install
Office 2007.

If you don't use this feature (and I don't) then you can safely remove it.
To remove, go to Add/Remove Programs, select the change button next to
Microsoft Office 2007, and select the option to Add or Remove features.
Change the icon next to Microsoft Groove to the one with the red X. Groove
will then be uninstalled and the GrooveMonitor should disappear from your
list of processes after you reboot.

[LBennick]

Thanks for the onformative info. Have you found that allowing groove to run
has caused big bites of RAM to be lost???? After it loaded with Office 2007 I
noticed a huge deficit in my computing speed and ability???? Any suggestions?

[godmademedoit]

Thanks Kiko, very helpful indeed, just cleaning up my startup processes now
and it's amazing how much crap gets wedged in there.

[minmouse]

Well done kiko!! thanks for that!!

[lowanasdumas]

This may help. Since you cannot remove GrooveMonitor [to my knowledge] the next best thing is to stop it from running so that it cannot send any information. The way to do this is to go to the System Configuration Utility.

Using the RUN box from the START menu, type in MSCONFIG then select the STARTUP tab. Remove the checkmark from the box which is next to GrooveMonitor. Make sure you scroll down if there are more than one user accounts; it tends to add one for each. Deselect all of them and the service will not start when the computer does.

When you restart your computer, there will be a box that says you used the System Configuration Utility. There is a box that you can check to stop that from appearing. It really is there to let you know you stopped something from starting that ordinarily does automatically, so you can change it back if that was not the problem you were having.

Good luck! microsoft = spy

uemeul wrote:

GrooveMonitor.exe - StartUp importance
28-Mar-07

After I installed Groove 2007, I noticed that in Registry, under the Key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
a new String Value has been created with the name "GrooveMonitor".
I would like to know if by deleting this value, Groove won't work as it
should.

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[lowanasdumas]

This may help. Since you cannot remove GrooveMonitor [to my knowledge] the next best thing is to stop it from running so that it cannot send any information. The way to do this is to go to the System Configuration Utility.

Using the RUN box from the START menu, type in MSCONFIG then select the STARTUP tab. Remove the checkmark from the box which is next to GrooveMonitor. Make sure you scroll down if there are more than one user accounts; it tends to add one for each. Deselect all of them and the service will not start when the computer does.

When you restart your computer, there will be a box that says you used the System Configuration Utility. There is a box that you can check to stop that from appearing. It really is there to let you know you stopped something from starting that ordinarily does automatically, so you can change it back if that was not the problem you were having.

Good luck! microsoft = spy

uemeul wrote:

GrooveMonitor.exe - StartUp importance
28-Mar-07

After I installed Groove 2007, I noticed that in Registry, under the Key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run"
a new String Value has been created with the name "GrooveMonitor".
I would like to know if by deleting this value, Groove won't work as it
should.

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