In message , Leonard Grey
writes:
Open Windows Explorer View menu place a checkmark next to Status Bar.
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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Just in case you're _not_ doing a DOH (perhaps the menu bar isn't
visible - I'm not sure if that can happen under XP), it's
Alt-V
downarrow
enter
..

Fred Holmes wrote:
On my Windows 2000 machine, every Windows Explorer window (directory
listing) by default contains a "status bar" at the bottom of the
window. This "status" bar displays:
1) if no items are selected, the number of items displayed (the
number
of items/objects shown in the window) and the total size of the files
in the window (bytes to be transferred if the entire contents are
copied or moved)
(Excluding subdirectories, as you observe below. More ...)

2) if one or more items are selected, the number of items selected
and
the total size of the selected files.
(It doesn't extend to the size of the contents of selected folders,
unfortunately.)
This status bar at the bottom of Explorer windows is missing on my
XP
machine(s) by default, even though I have selected / enabled the
"classic" Windows user interface for the machine.
How do I enable this status bar? Is it available in XP? I find it
very useful in Win2K and it is one of the reasons I stick with Win2K
for my "production" machine.
TIA
Fred Holmes
Indeed, I wouldn't like to live without it!

Incidentally, under XP, it _sometimes_ shows other things (I'm not sure
if this is configurable): for example, if an mp3 file is highlighted, it
shows the contents of (some of?) the data tags, such as artist and album
title.
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