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August 14, 2003

Internet Explorer Status Bar in Win XP

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Everytime I open up IE in XP, my status bar is hidden and not show. Other than being irritating, it has become a habit for me to click View > Status Bar everytime I browse the web. After a bit of research, fix this problem by following the below steps. Please note, you will be adjusting your registry values, we recommend you make a backup of your registry and assume no resposibility for the below instructions (they have worked for us everytime however!)

Start with one instance of IE. Select View | Status Bar

Now press Ctrl while clicking the X in the upper-right-hand corner of the window to close the application.

Next, open My Computer and select View | Status Bar

Finally, go to Tools | Folder Options and select the View tab.

Click Apply to all folders, confirm the dialog, and then close Windows Explorer.

NOW ...... start regedit (Start > Run > regedit )

Go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

Select "Show_StatusBar"

Go to 'Permissions...' from Edit menu

Click 'Advanced' find your user name in the list & click 'edit' button put a check next to 'Set value' under 'Deny'

Thanks to everyone below for the comments; keep them coming :)

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Thank you for posting this. - Wonderful, I was looking for a fix to this annoying 'problem'. - I bet this extremely frustrating difference in default behaviour was seen by someone as a feature..

Thanks for sharing!

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Posted by: Chris Wiltshire at September 30, 2003 03:43 AM

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Posted by: Matt at October 2, 2003 04:42 PM

Yay! Thankyou kindly for that post. I can't tell you how much that capricious little status bar has p*ssed me off when working.

Posted by: Mr. T. at October 12, 2003 08:32 PM

Just would like to say the same...a very very helpful post! Was starting to get very annoying! Why does that happen anyways?

Posted by: Corey Gwin at October 13, 2003 02:25 AM

Very useful post, but I can't help but wonder why Microsoft deliberately makes it so hard for novice users to see what Internet Explorer is doing..

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I thought I'm to stupid to setup my IE correctly, but I should have known it better ... it's a new feature from Microshit.

Thanks a lot for the guidance.

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I have internet explorer 6.0. there is no folder options in tools menu. I wonder how other could find it.

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Finally! Problem solved. Thanks a million!

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Wow! Thanks.

Posted by: Mark at December 6, 2003 06:04 PM

Figures that you have to go to such great lengths to disable such a piddly (but useful) feature in a Microsoft application. I'm surprised that Microsoft doesnt recommend re-installing your OS. What a bunch of buffoons they are.

Posted by: Eddith at December 30, 2003 01:45 PM

Thanks guys, good thing you posted the solution to this extremely stupid "feature" of Windows XP :)

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this is indeed a very good thing to know...in the future, when i re-re-install this shit they call Windows. if it only was just that!

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Posted by: crazy-canuck at February 28, 2004 12:50 AM

well no wonder i could never figure this out when there's so many fiddly steps involved! thanks so much for sharing this great tip :)

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Posted by: bali at April 8, 2004 01:28 AM

Yay!

Finally! Its a shame you have to can't set permissions for individual keys instead of the entire "Main" folder. Never mind - its done the trick!

Thanks!

Posted by: Paul at April 15, 2004 09:29 AM

Great Job...

Taken so much stress away.

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Thanks! Works like a charm!

Posted by: Travis at June 23, 2004 05:25 PM

At last, a fix for a most annoying problem! Well done! :)

Posted by: Simon at July 4, 2004 12:12 PM

I had a little problem to find it under my language version, but I managed. Thanks for this guide.

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Good man

Posted by: P at August 25, 2004 06:10 AM

Thanks for this post, really needed that.

Posted by: Nick at September 7, 2004 04:58 PM

This is the second time I have come back for this advice. Had to reinstall windows cos of other problems, and am now fixing this IE status bar for the 2nd time. I am printing this page off and keeping it forever - thanks dude.

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