I've got an invisible Status Bar??

[west coaster]

Something really strange is going on here. My status bar is a greyed out
section where a status bar should be. I'm using FHMX (patch updated) on Windows
XP Pro with P4 chip and 1GB ram. I've tried turning it on by ticking "status
bar" in the "Toolbar" menu and have even gone so far as to uninstall and
reinstall FH. Anyone have any ideas or solutions? Is there maybe a preference
setting I've overlooked?
Thanks for reading this plea for help.....

[Joy Castillon]

When you do not have a document opened in FreeHand, the status bar will be
grayed-out or disabled. If you have one document opened and still the status
bar is disabled, click and drag it to make it float and then check if the
following are visible: magnification, drawing mode, and units.

If this will still not work, follow the steps on the link below (FreeHand
Technote) on how to recover missing toolbars:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/freehand/ts/documents/missing_toolbars.htm[/url]

Hope this helps

[west coaster]

Tried all your advice Joy, but that cheeky status bar still didn't show up
(believe me, I looked high and low). What I ended up doing was uninstalling &
then reinstalling FH. This time I chose the option to remove all other user
preferences during uninstall. Everything is a-ok now.
Thanks....

[Unregistered]

Tried all your advice Joy, but that cheeky status bar still didn't show up
(believe me, I looked high and low). What I ended up doing was uninstalling &
then reinstalling FH. This time I chose the option to remove all other user
preferences during uninstall. Everything is a-ok now.
Thanks....

I have some problem, please tell where is 'remove all other user
preferences' option, when I click uninstall it don't give any option, I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate.