I’ve been trying to figure this out ever since I switched to Windows XP back in April – now I know the answer.. annoying as all hell.
Thanks, Ev…
Status? Argh.. In all the time I’ve been using Windows XP on my primary machine (since the 3rd beta), one thing has consitently driven me nuts: The status bar in Windows/Internet Explorer always disappears. No matter how many times I go to View | Status Bar, the next window I open or the next time I launch IE, it doesn’t have a status bar. I had this problem on two different installs now. It finally occurred to me to find the fix this this problem, so I Googled it and had it solved in three minutes. Duh. (There’s some complicated instructions there, but the simple one in the second post seemed to work for me.) I find it surprising that they decided to hide the status bar by default. It’s like surfing blind. Perhaps they found that to newbies it was just a distraction and figured people who wanted it would figure it out, which wouldn’t have been a problem had it behaved as expected. [evhead]