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What to do if IE's status bar keeps disappearing

On a couple of the machines I use, I find myself continually turning on the status bar in IE (View | Status Bar). But then seemingly at random, if I later start iexplore.exe or launch a shortcut, the status bar would be missing.

I finally stumbled across a solution to this, which seems to be working so far, described on O'Reilly's Annoyances site: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1010765962

[Update July 1st, 2004: This is fixed in XP SP2.]

Posted: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:51 PM by kclemson
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RWorld Ramblings - Can you hear us? said:

On a couple of the machines I use, I find myself continually turning on the status bar in IE (View | Status Bar). But then seemingly at random, if I later start iexplore.exe or launch a shortcut, the status...
# February 11, 2004 4:58 PM

Mitch Walker said:

It's actually easy to fix and doesn't require a registry fix. IE simply takes the last instance's settings as the default, or rather when you shut IE down, it writes the settings down. So if you have window A w/ a status bar and window B wo/ a status bar, whichever one you close *last* wins. So if you want a setting to stick, make sure you only have 1 instance running, set it how you like, then close it.
# February 11, 2004 2:00 PM

Kevin's Blog said:

# February 11, 2004 5:48 PM

Niclas said:

But what about the real problem?
Why does the status bar keep getting turned off without any reason?
# February 12, 2004 12:09 AM

Jack Mayhoff [MSFT] said:

StatusBar.Visible = random();

Genius!
# February 12, 2004 1:13 AM

KC Lemson said:

Niclas: It looks like Mitch knows the root cause as he described above. In my case, I didn't realize that the setting was shared between windows explorer and internet explorer, so I probably had at least one of those open at any given time which is why the behavior ended up confusing me.

The way I fixed it for me was to open windows explorer, show the status bar, and then go into the view customization and apply it to all folders.
# February 12, 2004 9:27 AM

Evan said:

Amazing coincidence: I was browsing your page and had just turned on the status bar, muttering about what a pain it was to have to keep doing that over and over again. You're a life-saver KC! :)
# February 13, 2004 12:43 AM

Kevin's Blog said:

# August 24, 2004 5:49 PM
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