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re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 6:09 pm Posted by AgentX (1 messages posted) No help I'm afraid, but I see XP Service Pack 2 also now prevents JavaScript hiding ("status=no") of the status bar in Internet Explorer pop-up windows. Seems a shame if features like this which can be useful in creating clean website interfaces are lost in a "belt and braces" approach to security fixes. Especially when far more pressing security lapses in Windows are overlooked... On Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 5:40 pm, Pixelskin wrote: >Just installed SP2. Now when I open Explorer or My Computer, the Status Bar goes >missing. If I then click View Status Bar and close explorer, it then disappears when >I reopen Explorer. > >I have tried various combinations in the 'View Folder Options' - Remeber each folder's >view...Apply to All Folders etc etc, but nothing seems to work. > >Anyone else experience this and any help greatly appreciated. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Thursday, September 9, 2004 at 8:04 am Posted by Doug (1 messages posted) A colleague of mine just showed me the solution. In windows explorer, right-click on the toolbar and UNLOCK the toolbar. Select view >> status bar, then LOCK the toolbar. Close windows explorer and then re-open it. Your status bar will appear. The javascript blocking of the status property, however, (status=no) is a really aggravating me. On Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 5:40 pm, Pixelskin wrote: >Just installed SP2. Now when I open Explorer or My Computer, the Status Bar goes >missing. If I then click View Status Bar and close explorer, it then disappears when >I reopen Explorer. > >I have tried various combinations in the 'View Folder Options' - Remeber each folder's >view...Apply to All Folders etc etc, but nothing seems to work. > >Anyone else experience this and any help greatly appreciated. A colleague of mine just showed me the solution. In windows explorer, right-click on the toolbar and UNLOCK the toolbar. Select view >> status bar, then LOCK the toolbar. Close windows explorer and then re-open it. Your status bar will appear. The javascript blocking of the status property (status=no) is a really aggravating me. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Friday, September 17, 2004 at 4:02 pm Posted by bruno (3 messages posted) I tried this, and didn't work. Also tried the Apply to All Folders trick, locking and unlocking, logging off and on again, running the explorer from c:\windows\explorer.exe, and nothing. Help will be very appreciated. On Thursday, September 9, 2004 at 8:04 am, Doug wrote: >A colleague of mine just showed me the solution. In windows explorer, right-click >on the toolbar and UNLOCK the toolbar. Select view >> status bar, then LOCK the >toolbar. Close windows explorer and then re-open it. Your status bar will appear. > > >The javascript blocking of the status property, however, (status=no) is a really >aggravating me. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Friday, September 17, 2004 at 5:06 pm Posted by bruno (3 messages posted) 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. On Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 5:40 pm, Pixelskin wrote: >Just installed SP2. Now when I open Explorer or My Computer, the Status Bar goes >missing. If I then click View Status Bar and close explorer, it then disappears when >I reopen Explorer. > >I have tried various combinations in the 'View Folder Options' - Remeber each folder's >view...Apply to All Folders etc etc, but nothing seems to work. > >Anyone else experience this and any help greatly appreciated. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Monday, September 20, 2004 at 6:18 am Posted by Gregory Picklesimer (1 messages posted) Thanks! This is great information. 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 4:00 pm Posted by Adam (1 messages posted) Try this link and use the reg hack - worked for me and I had the same annoying problem. http://kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm On Wednesday, August 18, 2004 at 5:40 pm, Pixelskin wrote: >Just installed SP2. Now when I open Explorer or My Computer, the Status Bar goes >missing. If I then click View Status Bar and close explorer, it then disappears when >I reopen Explorer. > >I have tried various combinations in the 'View Folder Options' - Remeber each folder's >view...Apply to All Folders etc etc, but nothing seems to work. > >Anyone else experience this and any help greatly appreciated. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Saturday, September 25, 2004 at 8:07 am Posted by inkwire (1 messages posted) FINALLY! I'd really gotten fed up with reading the same advice to "increase the BagMRU". sp2 does _that_ automatically, and my problem with the view status bar was caused by sp2. 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Wednesday, November 24, 2004 at 6:15 pm 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. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Friday, January 7, 2005 at 4:18 am Posted by KRowe (1 messages posted) The easiest solution to this problem is to open Explorer and turn on the statusbar then go to the folder options and then the view tab and click the button to set all folders like the current one. This will fix the problem and you don't even need to open regedit. Of course all of your folder options will need to be redone so it may not be the best answer on an old install but this is definately the way to go for a new install. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar Friday, January 7, 2005 at 5:46 pm Posted by bruno (3 messages posted) KRowe, I've tried that and didn't work! On Friday, January 7, 2005 at 4:18 am, KRowe wrote: >The easiest solution to this problem is to open Explorer and turn on the statusbar >then go to the folder options and then the view tab and click the button to set all >folders like the current one. This will fix the problem and you don't even need to >open regedit. Of course all of your folder options will need to be redone so it may >not be the best answer on an old install but this is definately the way to go for >a new install. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: XP Service Pack 2 and Explorer Status bar -- the registry change works Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 7:47 am Posted by splitDiff (2 messages posted) As a few others found, the registry change was the only solution that worked for me. Worked perfectly! 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