Windows XP/SP1 IE issue...

Yeah, yeah, I know, I know...I'm going to ask a Windows question. It's out-of-character for me to ramble about anything but FreeBSD, but oh well.

IE's status bar keeps disappearing. Whenever I hit control-N to spawn a new IE window, there's no status bar. I happen to like the status bar (can be re-enabled in view -> status bar) and I'd like to figure out how to make it permanent. When I start IE from the quick-launch bar the status bar is there, but whenever I create a new window it's not.

What's causing my status bar to go away and how can I get it to stay around?

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/...8.html#8339086

A bit long winded I guess, lol, but give it a shot. I had to sign up to get that, so here is a copy and paste just in case it requires you to do so too.

1) With (only one) IE open, click View, select: Status Bar
2) Right-click on IE's Toolbar and select: "Lock the Toolbars"
3) Hold down the Ctrl key and click the close button (upper right)
4) Right click on the Start Button to open Windows Explorer, click View, select: Status Bar
5) Right-click on Explorer's Toolbar and select: "Lock the Toolbar"
6) Click Tools | Folder Options | View tab
7) Click the "Apply to all folders" button. (Click OK if this gives you another dialogue question)
8) Hold down the Ctrl key and click the close button (upper right)
9) Reopen IE to any page, right-click on a link and select: "Open in New Window" The Status Bar should remain visible.
10)Click on the Start Button, select RUN, and type REGEDIT

11) Verify that these Registry entries exist:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
"Show_StatusBar"="yes"
"Show_URLinStatusBar"="yes"

OR

go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
select "Show_StatusBar"
go to 'Permissions...' from Edit menu
click 'Advanced'
find your user name in the list & click 'edit' button
put a check next to 'Set value' under 'Deny'

Impressive. The top method works (so far). Thanks for the help.