I've noticed another annoyance in windows explorer in XP. It never preserves the status bar, even if you continously turn it on, it usually gets turned off again when you close explorer. Anyway to stop that? Set Defaults in Explorer:

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I used to have the same problem, but it seems to have cleared up and I'm not sure why - it might have been SP1, but I can't say for sure, because I stopped paying much attention (harping on things I can't fix makes me irritable...). Now it seems to be OK and the status bar shows whether I double-click a folder or choose "Explore". The only time it doesn't show is when I look in a graphics/multimedia folder with the special options. Good Luck


On Saturday, January 11, 2003 at 2:37 am, Barry wrote:
>I've noticed another annoyance in windows explorer in XP. It never preserves the
>status bar, even if you continously turn it on, it usually gets turned off again
>when you close explorer. Anyway to stop that?
>
> Set
>Defaults in Explorer:

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Ya its actually fixed itself now. I've installed sp1 too recently, but im not sure if that fixed it. What i did do was click on apply view to all folders ( in tools and folder options) and it seemed to work from then on.Darn XP annoyances, it really is annoyin when I can't fix them!

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When you open Windows Explorer, the Status bar may be absent even if you previously checked View | Status Bar in the menu. To make Windows remember that setting, first close all Windows Explorer windows and launch just one. Size it the way you want and put a check next to Status Bar in the View menu. Now close the window by holding down the Shift key while clicking on the X icon at top right. This also works in Internet Explorer.

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