In windows Vista and 7 there is a drop down menu with a slider for file view options, like Large Icons, List, Details and so on, but in windows 8 it was moved to the status bar, not exactly moved, but two basic options have now icons and no more drop down menu is available in the toolbar.
When I enable classic explorer's status bar on windows 8 I cannot disable explorer's default sidebar, because I would lose that functionality.
My feature request is to detect windows 8 (and above) and add those two icons (Icons view, and Details view) somewhere, to the status bar.
Wwindows 7:
Windows 8:
, but I don't use classic toolbar 
. And there are already those 2 icons by default.