re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Wednesday, November 24, 2004 at 6:15 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Nikmis (1 messages posted) I read a lot of forums and tried a lot of stuff and this finally WORKED!!!! One prob, I had at first was I was going into Local_Macine in regedit and not Current_User. Once I got that straight worked perferct thanks On Friday, September 17, 2004 at 5:06 pm, bruno wrote: >The answer is actually on this site. To fix the Windows Explorer, you have to go >to the registry and add a value that is missing: >HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\StatusBarOther >This value (StatusBarOther) should be a DWORD with a value of 1. > >And this fixes everything! Good Luck. > >BTW, even though I was an administrator, I wasn't able to edit the registry. Right-click >in the Main Key and select Permissions, then delete the Special Permissions set by >default by the system, and your ready to go. > > Written in response to: re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (bruno: Friday, September 17, 2004 at 5:06 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (Pixelskin: Wed, Aug 18, 2004, 5:40 pm) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (AgentX: Sun, Aug 29, 2004, 6:09 pm) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (Doug: Thu, Sep 9, 2004, 8:04 am) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (bruno: Fri, Sep 17, 2004, 4:02 pm) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (bruno: Fri, Sep 17, 2004, 5:06 pm) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (Gregory Picklesimer: Mon, Sep 20, 2004, 6:18 am) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (inkwire: Sat, Sep 25, 2004, 8:07 am) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (Nikmis: Wed, Nov 24, 2004, 6:15 pm) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar -- the registry change works (splitDiff: Tue, May 29, 2007, 7:47 am) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (Adam: Wed, Sep 22, 2004, 4:00 pm) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (KRowe: Fri, Jan 7, 2005, 4:18 am) re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar (bruno: Fri, Jan 7, 2005, 5:46 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum