How can disable zoom in status bar of Internet explorer?

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I want to disable zoom available in status bar of IE? How can do this? Is it possible using JavaScript?

I hope not (the browser is running on my computer using my resources). If you explain why you need this there may be another solution.
@Richard i assume he means on his own computer (This is superuser, after all). A good reason to revert to the old zoom behavior (zooming changes text size only), is that IE is very slow at rendering resized content. Flash and animated gifs are especially bad. (Though this will be fixed in ie9 with it's hardware rendering)
@Richard 0 I have to do this in a web application so that user can't zoom.
@Vis - this is not possible. You are sending web pages, which is basically code. This code is interpreted by the browser, on the user's side, to render it as a full page. You can't control the fact that the browser can render it bigger or smaller than what you want, from the website side. This zoom is only a client thing, there is no way to block it from your side.
@Vishawjeet: You need to ask development (including creating the web pages) questions on StackOverflow. SuperUser is end user Q&A.

grammar31 · Answer 1 · 2010-07-07 15:35:19Z

According to Microsoft, you can disable the zoom feature by adding registry values in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft.

FYI: This solution only works for the end-client, not for arbitrary web pages (which, to my knowledge, cannot disable zooming).

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