IE5 status bar

[Fingers]

If I check "status bar" on the Internet Explorer 5 "view menu", IE5 always opens with the status bar visible. But if I then choose "open new window" or "CTRL + N", the resulting window never displays the status bar until I re-select it from the "view menu".
Is there any way that I can make all new IE5 windows open with the status bar automatically displayed?

Thanks,
Fingers

[BFlurie]

I ran into this problem long ago with IE5, but since I haven't been choosing "updates" for anything, it doesn't happen now. Do you have the Power Tweaks for IE5 installed? At the time, I suspected this update of causing it.

[Fingers]

I haven't use the Power Tweaks, but I do have most of the security updates installed.

I've got another machine with IE5, and it works properly. I'll check if they both have the same updates installed.

[BFlurie]

Make sure your registry has these entries, but in my case, it had no effect.

[HKEY_USERS\.Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Show_ToolBar"="yes"
"Show_URLToolBar"="yes"
"Show_StatusBar"="yes"
"Show_URLinStatusBar"="yes"
"FullScreen"="no"

[Fingers]

Thanks for the help BFlurie, but it didn't work for me either.

I thought maybe IE 5.01 SP-1 would resolve the issue. After about an hour and a half of download and install time; guess what... I've still got the same problem. There has to be something simple here that I'm missing.

This PC won't display "mouse trails" either and I think this is an issue with the VIA chipset. My other PC is on an Intel "Seattle" mobo with the BX chipset; mouse trail and IE5 work fine on it. Maybe it's the Via 133A chipset?

[Fingers]

I've been living with this problem for 10 months now, but all of a sudden... PRESTO, it's fixed. I didn't change anything that I'm aware of and I didn't install any updates recently, but the status bar now appears everytime I open a new browser window...WoooHooo

Just another unsolved mystery...I guess