The weird and wonderfully changeable Windows 7 status bar
I've been reading a lot of conflicting information about what the "status bar" in Windows 7 does and does not show. For those that don't know, the "status bar" is the banner that shows at the bottom of your Windows Explorer windows. (If you have it enabled, that is.) It's intended to give you quick details about the file or folder that is currently in focus. (Note I said Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer.) Anyway, in XP, the status bar typically gave you fixed information. One of these was the file size. For whatever reason, Windows 7 does and doesn't give you the same information. It doesn't in the sense that the attributes shown in the status bar change according to file type. All files show an icon for the creating/assigned program, and the file name, which is redundant. After that, you get different tags. The current folder gives "offline status" and "offline availability". A text file gives "...