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status bar

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A horizontal line of information displayed at the bottom or top of an application window. It reports information about the current state of the program or the data contents in the window. For example, the status bar in an Explorer window shows how many files a folder contains and how much disk space they take up. When a file is highlighted, details about the file are displayed.


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A permanent status bar continuously displays critical machine parameters.
If you initiate a transaction that calls for personal or financial information, confirm that the Web site is secure by checking for a lock icon on the browser's status bar or a URL that begins https (the s stands for secure) instead of http.
``It makes more sense to measure schools on their academic growth from year to year, and target resources to schools showing the least improvement, rather than designating schools 'passed or failed' based on whether they reached an arbitrary status bar.
 
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