I hate things that turn off the explorer status bar

<rant>Whoever decided that it would be a good idea for the explorer status bar to be ‘switch offable by someone other than the user’ should be taken outside and given a good kicking. Why is it a good to let someone other than the user decide what’s the best way to display information?</rant>

and don’t get me started on folder views that reset themselves to the dumb ass icon display for no apparant reason…