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I did a restore of my computer yesterday and suddenly found the subject problem. I have checked all applicable settings (Win 7 and CS) and did all the troubleshooting that I could think of, but the only thing shown on status bar now is the number of items in a folder. It drives me nuts. Just wonder if anyone here knows how to fix the problem. Thanks.

Are you sure you are looking at the status bar, and not the details pane? Look for Status Bar in the View menu.

Yes, it's the status bar I am looking at, not the details pane. It's just impossible to mistake one for the other. The status bar worked perfectly until I did the restore.

Try uninstalling Classic Shell, then rebooting, then installing again. It may be that its features got unregistered by the restore.
Your settings will be preserved.

Those were the first things that I tried after spotting the problem. I also tried different versions of CS including the latest beta, disabling/re-enabling the free space/total size option in CS Explorer, and complete clean installation (that is wiping all traces of CS before reinstalling), but the free space/total file size info just didn't come back. Don't know what went wrong. I've been using CS for a couple of years now and this is the first time I have this problem.

Is that the only feature of Classic Explorer that is not working for you? For example, do you see a toolbar, do you see the Up button in the title bar, can you successfully change the style of the navigation pane?

Everything else works like a charm, which makes the problem all the more weird. Maybe I need to do another restore to a point of time when everything was all right.

Select 2 files in some folder, and show me a screenshot of Explorer.

The screenshot is attached herewith. Thanks.

That's weird. I have not seen this before.
Try few other Classic Explorer features. See if you can show the Up button and if you can disable the breadcrumbs.

I did what you suggested and more and found out that I can't disable breadcrumbs or hide the search box. As for the Up button, I don't know if we are talking about the same thing. It only shows up on the tool bar as shown on the screenshot I uploaded, but not before or after the Back/Forward button on the address bar.

Since the status bar info is the only feature of interest to me from Classic Explorer and I have already tweaked my heart out on all other areas such as auto-hiding the Explorer command bar, moving the preview panel to the bottom, and reducing line spacing in the right file panel to XP level, etc., I have decided to remove the Classic Explorer and move on now that the status bar is not working. I hope the problem will be resolved one way or another in future releases.

Looks like the "ExplorerBHO Class" addon is not enabled (but "Classic Explorer Bar" is). Double-check the addon settings in Internet Explorer: http://www.classicshell.net/faq/#explorer_toolbar

Wow! It works. You are the man! Thanks a million.

The Classic Explorer add-on was somehow disabled in IE on my computer although I never touched it before or after I restored my computer which triggered the problem. Enabling it immediately put the genie back in the bottle!

Before I posted here for help, I went as far as to check the "enable third-party browser extensions" under Internet Options. But it never occurred to me that I needed to go one step further to check the add-on settings. I'm humbled.

I just ran into this issue where it didn't work after a re-install of my system.
Thank you for the information, it fixed it for me as well!

If it's on any use, I am running Windows 7 pro 64-bit.

I had exactly the same problem, the only thing shown on status bar was the number of items in a folder.

I was really getting crazy looking for a solution, and then I found this forum, and now, IT WORKS!!! Thank you very very much

I went to Internet explorer, then I open the "Toolbars" sub-menu and I select "Classic Explorer Bar", and a windows appears asking me for enable. I enable and then, the sky is blue and the birds are singing, I am happy again.

Really thank you very much, I was thinking to install windows again, and now it´s not neccesary.