Internet Explorer Bar

Recently every know and then my bar at the bottom of the IE explorer that shows the web address of the link your about to click and gives status of pages loading and whatnot disappears. I cant seem to find the option that might of somehow been turned off in the options menu. The only way that I most of the time can get it back is by using system restore. Can someone tell me how to get it back and tell me why it might be disappearing and how to prevent it?

 

That's the status bar.

View > Status Bar is how you control it.

 

Another thing that annoys me is that by default, when you open a new window, it doesn't show up. If you want to change that, here is an MSKB article on it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330216&Product=ie