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title: "Groupy 2 UI: Grouping Rules"
canonical: "https://support.stardock.com/space/SHC/1486520345/Groupy%202%20UI%3A%20Grouping%20Rules"
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![image](media://8bfcc3a8-7558-4392-9ffa-7ab9f778b915)

## Automatic grouping windows settings

![image](media://ace7a8ef-d47c-44f4-8346-513d66253ed1)

### Automatically group identical windows together unless they are already in another Group

### Group newly opened windows when the CTRL key is held down whilst opening the new window

### View and delete your automatic application Groupings

Create new settings from the Groupy menu on the Groupy bar.

## My Saved Groups

Groups are saved from the Groupy bar. You can launch from here with a double click

![image](media://58103777-446c-4606-b996-5ac58829ae07)

Also from here you can Browse the saved Groups folder

## Block / allow applications

Manage which applications can be grouped together.

![image](media://72079555-5ce2-4693-a7ac-67ac24e0e046)

### Only allow specified applications to be in a Group

This option switches the above list to be the list that only allows certain apps to be grouped

## Custom Rules

Manage your own permanent grouping rules

![image](media://7d4b79e9-fbb4-4446-b3d0-e53eefe03c04)

### Creating a rule:

What should this rule do?

![image](media://1b9c0bfa-f60a-460a-83a5-9595abc29ff3)

### Configuring a rule:

You can match on a combination of process, window class and caption text

![image](media://12270d45-2aff-4d12-b4e5-a8f05adb4231)

- Process to Group
- Windows class to Group
- Windows caption for Grouping
- Office file or File Explorer folder