Microsoft removed/permanently disabled the Status bar in File Explorer

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  1. Posts : 56,806
    Multi-boot Windows 10/11 - RTM, RP, Beta, and Insider
       #21

    thewizardoz said:
    That's correct.
    I have enabled it while in Explorer, also in File Explorer Options as well as the Explorer registry key but still no Status bar!
    If I enable the Details Pane - View while in Explorer that adds another panel with an icon in it to Explorer on the righthand side of your screen that takes up 1/4 to 1/3 of your Explorer screen. That's far more screen than the old thin Status Bar along the bottom of screen.
    As an experiment, create another local dirt-dumb user account, and see what it does.
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  2. Posts : 13,896
    Win10 Version 22H2 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home
       #22

    One of my current IP computers:
    Attachment 198816

    A note: the Snipping Tool is gone just as promised/warned.
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  3. Posts : 14,046
    Windows 11 Pro X64 22H2 22621.1848
       #23

    Status bar is there and can be turned on and off as always for me. ALso the Snipping tool is still there but give you a warning that it will be removed in a future update. This is on 17733.rs5.

    Microsoft removed/permanently disabled the Status bar in File Explorer-oracle-vm-virtualbox.jpg
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  4. Posts : 13,896
    Win10 Version 22H2 Pro and Home, Win11 Pro and Home
       #24

    I just got Build 17735 on 2 IP computers, 1 had the Snipping Tool removed and the 2nd had it removed but the icon on the Taskbar remained but was dead.
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  5. Posts : 31,467
    10 Home x64 (22H2) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)
       #25

    If you want, you can keep a copy of the snipping tool from earlier versions and run that. Same goes for MS Paint, as I said here.

    You simply need to take copies of two files for each app while you still can. These are the *.exe and its associated *.mui, to be found in a subfolder appropriate to the base language of your Windows install (en-US, en-GB or whatever). Put the .exe in any folder you want and the .mui in a subfolder with the name of the language.
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  6. Posts : 4,224
    Windows 10
       #26

    Save copies of the two files with red arrows pointing to them in the following screencap. You can put those files in their current locations in future versions of Windows 10, even after Snipping Tool has been removed.

    Microsoft removed/permanently disabled the Status bar in File Explorer-sniptool.files.jpg

    That should do it!
    HTH,
    --Ed--
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    Last edited by EdTittel; 11 Aug 2018 at 13:49. Reason: Pasted wrong example file in at first. Oops!
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  7. Posts : 31,467
    10 Home x64 (22H2) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)
       #27

    EdTittel said:
    You can put those files in their current locations in future versions of Windows 10, even after Snipping Tool has been removed.
    They work if you put them in any location. The only requirement is that the .mui is in an en-us folder in the folder you put the .exe (or en-gb in my case).

    I keep all my 'historic' .exe files (MS Paint being another) in an 'Old Windows apps' folder I created in Program Files then pin them to the taskbar or Start so I can easily run them. I prefer not to put them in their original locations as they may well get removed by the next Features Update to 1809.

    In fact, you can have several versions in different folder and run them simultaneously - even using a 32-bit one in an x64 machine. Here's two different vintages of MS Paint on an x64 PC, the older one is x86, copied from another PC.

    Microsoft removed/permanently disabled the Status bar in File Explorer-multiple-versions-paint.png
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