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re: Status Bar in IE disappears
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 at 9:30 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Anonymous
(2 messages posted)
***OK THAT *UCKER POSTED WITHOUT ANY LINE BREAKS & I DIDN'T KNOW I COULD USE HTML
*AND* I CAN'T EDIT MY POST, SO HERE GOES AGAIN***
*THE (more localized) FIX* FOR THE STATUS BAR DISAPPEARS ON NEW WINDOW PROBLEM
Instead of resetting all folders & losing all your settings, try this...
Open the Registry Editor (or if you're a computer newbie...DON'T!).
Navigate to...
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\BagMRU
...look for the value of...
NodeSlot
...(you want the number in parentheses, not the hex number before it)...in the left
view, below BagMRU (where you are) is Bags, open it & start typing the number you
found & the highlight will change to it, if that don't work, just scroll to it. Press
F2 to rename it, add a - (dash) to the end of the number, so if it was 339 (what
mine was) rename it to 339- then open IE & see if you get a status bar in a new window
(if you don't...rename it back & continue smashing your head into the computer cuz
another solution didn't work).
I went thru *ALOT* of searching to find the bag responsible for the "new window don't
have status bar, but the 1st window does" problem, after I got done & found mine
was bag 339, I noticed the NodeSlot value right off of BagMRU, for some reason on
mine it was the bag I needed, but I didn't know that at the time & didn't even notice
BagMRU had a NodeSlot value until after I found the one I needed (I noticed it then
because it was the number I spent FOREVER looking for, so it jumped out at me...&
I was like *uck! it was right there the whole time!).
This should only fix the problem I mentioned, the last guy said "as soon as I click
on a link it's gone again." so it sounds like his problem isn't pressing Ctrl+N for
a new window, but clicking on a javascript link that opens a new window, which on
mine was always working, I pressed Ctrl+N, had no status bar, but ran javascript[:]open(location)
(: {colon} changed to [:] {bracket colon bracket} to allow posting) & that got me
a status bar (mine only started not working the same day I fixed it...the power to
the computer went off while it was on & corrupted some things...I used system restore
to go back to the last system checkpoint & was able to see IE's status bar working,
I didn't know what reg key to save & take with me after I un-did the restore, so
I un-did it anyway to see if that would fix it {it did on a previous error} then
googled & found this about resetting all folders, so I re-restored & grabbed the
entire ShellNoRoam from when it was working & un-did the restore again & started
the hunt {I renamed the entire non-working ShellNoRoam & tried IE & it worked [&
renamed it back & it stopped working again]...so I knew one of the Bags was the culprit}).
If the links he's clicking are html target=_blank links, that might be more like
the Ctrl+N & less like the javascript (...or not). But if he already tried to reset
all folders & THAT didn't work, there's no reason this should either, both methods
change this part of the registry, mine just localizes the change to only this key,
instead of losing everything.
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