Icon not appearing in sttatus bar? Try this.

[GeSpot]

I originally tried to install one of the betas, and never got the button to appear in the status bar. When I saw the release today, I uninstalled the beta, and installed the v1.0, only to see that it didn't work either. When I went into the Addon Manager in Internet Explorer, the extension was listed with a New status, and both the Enable and Disable buttons were disabled.

I decided to try installing it on another computer, and everything worked properly. The installation has no options, so everything was done the same, but I did notice something different on the working computer. Prior to installing, I shut down all IE windows, both 32 and 64 bit. Once the installation was complete, I opened an IE window on the second computer, and it popped up the information bar, stating that an extension wanted to start, and I needed to click Enable. This did not happen on the first computer.

At that point, I did some digging, and I realized that an IE extension management restriction was enabled on the machine. Once I removed this restriction, I opened IE again, and was prompted to enable the plugin.

To determine whether you're machine is currently configured to restrict the use of addons, follow the following steps:
* If you are unfamiliar with the registry, don't follow the steps below. If you screw up your computer, it's your own fault.

1. Open up the registry editor. (Press and hold the Windows key and the R key. Type in regedit and press enter.)
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions (If this key isn't there, continue to step 4. No key = no restrictions.)
3. If there is a value called NoExtensionManagement, and the DWORD value is 1, set that value to 0.
4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions (If this key isn't there, then your problem wasn't due to extension management restrictions.)
5. If there is a value called NoExtensionManagement, and the DWORD value is 1, set that value to 0.

If you did end up changing the values of either of the registry keys, try opening an IE window. If that doesn't work, close all of your IE windows, uninstall AdBlock Plus, and re-install it. If your only problem was due to the IE extension management restriction, you should be prompted to enable the extension when you open IE.