What to do if IE's status bar keeps disappearing

RWorld Ramblings - Can you hear us? — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:58:00 GMT

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...

re: What to do if IE's status bar keeps disappearing

Mitch Walker — Wed, 11 Feb 2004 22:00:00 GMT

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.

Keeping IE and Windows Explorer Status Bar Present

Kevin's Blog — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 01:48:00 GMT

re: What to do if IE's status bar keeps disappearing

Niclas — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:09:00 GMT

But what about the real problem?
Why does the status bar keep getting turned off without any reason?

re: What to do if IE's status bar keeps disappearing

Jack Mayhoff [MSFT] — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:13:00 GMT

StatusBar.Visible = random();

Genius!

re: What to do if IE's status bar keeps disappearing

KC Lemson — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:27:00 GMT

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.

re: What to do if IE's status bar keeps disappearing

Evan — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:43:00 GMT

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! :)

Keeping IE and Windows Explorer Status Bar Present (Updated 08/24/2004)

Kevin's Blog — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:49:00 GMT