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Re: XP: Status Bar is Disabled or Disappears in Explorer | Windows | Tech-Recipes

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:49:53 -0000

Just thought I'd say thanks to the person that added the registry trick. I was really annoyed after finally updating to XP SP2, and my status bar would disapear everytime I enabled it and changed directories in Windows Explorer. I'm glad it's finally fixed, I missed the statusbar.

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Anonymous — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 07:57:22 -0000

Most of you should just get Mozilla Firefox, that's what I did when I was fed up with IE. It's safer and has a lot more features than IE. The status bar never dissapears either. ;)

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html
When you first start it it can load your IE bookmarks and settings.

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Wodash — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:12:23 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>Anonymous wrote:</h6>open notepad and copy this into it;

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Enable status bar in Windows Explorer
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain]
"StatusBarOther"=dword:00000001

;Enables status bar in Explorer
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerStreamsDefaults]
"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=hex:1c,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,
00,00,00,9a,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,f0,f0,f0,f0,14,00,03,00,
9a,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,fd,df,df,fd,0f,00,05,00,24,00,10,00,2e,
00,46,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,78,00,
96,00,60,00,60,00,78,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,05,
00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,cf,f3,a8,b0,33,43,ab,4b,88,73,1c,cb,1c,ad,a4,8b,30,f1,
25,b7,ef,47,1a,10,a5,f1,02,60,8c,9e,eb,ac,04,00,00,00

now safe it as fix_statusbar.reg, run it and select yes. Fixed it for me.</ul>

I LOVE YOU :D
It finally worked after I tried so many solutions, thank you man you are great. :wink:

Re: XP: Status Bar is Disabled or Disappears in Explorer | Windows | Tech-Recipes

No_One — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:34:03 -0000

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMainStatusBarOther
This value (StatusBarOther) should be a DWORD with a value of 1.

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Anonymous — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:50:54 -0000

Thanks Genius, excellent job.
The reg keys fixed the problem for me after
XP SP2 installation.
Very gracefull :D :D :D

Re: XP: Status Bar is Disabled or Disappears in Explorer | Windows | Tech-Recipes

davak — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 04:04:20 -0000

XP: Backup or Restore the Registry:
http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips260.html

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Anonymous — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:56:22 -0000

how do I un do
<ul id="quote">Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Enable status bar in Windows Explorer
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain]
"StatusBarOther"=dword:00000001

;Enables status bar in Explorer
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerStreamsDefaults]
"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=hex:1c,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,
00,00,00,9a,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,f0,f0,f0,f0,14,00,03,00,
9a,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,fd,df,df,fd,0f,00,05,00,24,00,10,00,2e,
00,46,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,78,00,
96,00,60,00,60,00,78,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,05,
00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,cf,f3,a8,b0,33,43,ab,4b,88,73,1c,cb,1c,ad,a4,8b,30,f1,
25,b7,ef,47,1a,10,a5,f1,02,60,8c,9e,eb,ac,04,00,00,00</ul>

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Anonymous — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 03:43:26 -0000

spoke too soon.
Nothing has worked!
Now when I reboot IE is started.

Re: XP: Status Bar is Disabled or Disappears in Explorer | Windows | Tech-Recipes

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 01:34:26 -0000

Tried all suggestions, none of them worked.

What did work in XP Pro.
Ran regedit
went to
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain
Show_StatusBar, modified to yes
Edit, 'Permissions, 'Advanced' , 'Set value', 'Deny', for all user names (Administrators, RESTRICTED, SYSTEM, ect.)

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guest — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:06:19 -0000

Thank you so much for thoes reg keys. They worked and my blood pressure is finally going back to normal over this damn annoying bug.

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carlostx — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:17:43 -0000

The reg keys fixed this annoying problem for me as well.
Thanks a lot!

Re: XP: Status Bar is Disabled or Disappears in Explorer | Windows | Tech-Recipes

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:20:16 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>davak wrote:</h6></ul><ul id="quote"><h6>anonymuss wrote:</h6>Great job, genius.
Now that you've told us the painfully obvious solution, can you perhaps tell us what happens when this does NOT work?
Even after 'apply to all folders', when the status bar continues to play truant?</ul>

This DOES fix the status bar problems cause by SP2 as the recipe says. It doesn't fix status bar errors caused by other problems.

IE 6.0 SP1 and prior has a DIFFERENT status bar bug. I'll post how to fix it as well.

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Guest — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:58:26 -0000

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Anonymous — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 01:19:56 -0000

I'd rather thank VerSeg! i've been trying to solve this and you just pointed me to the right key, which i couldn't find :)

thx dude!

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Andromache — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:12:11 -0000

Thanks for the registry key! It worked. :) 8)

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Anonymous — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:18:31 -0000

Thanks to the guy who posted the procedure for making a custom reg key, it fixed this very annoying problem for me on XP Pro..

Re: XP: Status Bar is Disabled or Disappears in Explorer | Windows | Tech-Recipes

VerSeg — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 04:11:34 -0000

The problem of is only an incorrect perimmion to a registry key.
The system and administrator does not have permission to the correct key (full control is disabled)

To solve the problem :

Start regedit
Richtclick on "HK Current_UserSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain"
Select "Permissions"
Select "Advanced"
Remove all existing permission entries
Enable "Inherit from parent ... " DON'T FORGET THIS !!!
Click "Apply"
Close al windows wit the "OK" button
Close regedit
Open Windows Explorer (or My Computer)
Select View
Enable "Status Bar"
Problem solved ...

I hope this can help you ...

Re: XP: Status Bar is Disabled or Disappears in Explorer | Windows | Tech-Recipes

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Sep 2004 05:37:49 -0000

open notepad and copy this into it;

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

;Enable status bar in Windows Explorer
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain]
"StatusBarOther"=dword:00000001

;Enables status bar in Explorer
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerStreamsDefaults]
"{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"=hex:1c,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,00,
00,00,00,9a,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,f0,f0,f0,f0,14,00,03,00,
9a,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,30,00,00,00,fd,df,df,fd,0f,00,05,00,24,00,10,00,2e,
00,46,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,04,00,00,00,78,00,
96,00,60,00,60,00,78,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,05,
00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,cf,f3,a8,b0,33,43,ab,4b,88,73,1c,cb,1c,ad,a4,8b,30,f1,
25,b7,ef,47,1a,10,a5,f1,02,60,8c,9e,eb,ac,04,00,00,00

now safe it as fix_statusbar.reg, run it and select yes. Fixed it for me.

Re: XP: Status Bar is Disabled or Disappears in Explorer | Windows | Tech-Recipes

davak — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 01:28:43 -0000

<ul id="quote"><h6>anonymuss wrote:</h6>Great job, genius.
Now that you've told us the painfully obvious solution, can you perhaps tell us what happens when this does NOT work?
Even after 'apply to all folders', when the status bar continues to play truant?</ul>

This DOES fix the status bar problems cause by SP2 as the recipe says. It doesn't fix status bar errors caused by other problems.

IE 6.0 SP1 and prior has a DIFFERENT status bar bug. I'll post how to fix it as well.

Re: XP: Status Bar is Disabled or Disappears in Explorer | Windows | Tech-Recipes

anonymuss — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:53:56 -0000

Great job, genius.
Now that you've told us the painfully obvious solution, can you perhaps tell us what happens when this does NOT work?
Even after 'apply to all folders', when the status bar continues to play truant?

Re: XP: Status Bar is Disabled or Disappears in Explorer | Windows | Tech-Recipes

nk4002r — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 06:43:10 -0000

Does not stay - navigate to a new folder or close and open windows explorer, the status bar is again disappeared. True, I can turn it on by View/Status Bar, but I want it to be there by default and ALWAYS !!

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Anonymous — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 09:58:28 -0000

For some reason, this fix doesn't stay fixed.