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What to do if IE's status bar keeps disappearing

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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: https://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1010765962

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

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    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...
  • Anonymous
    February 11, 2004
    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.
  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2004
    But what about the real problem?
    Why does the status bar keep getting turned off without any reason?
  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2004
    StatusBar.Visible = random();

    Genius!
  • Anonymous
    February 12, 2004
    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.
  • Anonymous
    February 13, 2004
    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! :)