Is there a way for Windows 7 to show remaining disk space in the status bar?

This is really driving me nuts. I do a lot of moving media files to and from USB drives, and I am constantly looking to the status bar to see how much remaining space I have on a drive. It's quick, and doesn't involve any clicking. At least, that's what I used to do using Windows XP. Is there a way to get the status bar in Windows 7 to behave in the same way?

I saw in a Wikipedia article that some features have been removed from Windows 7, including these two that seem to be affecting me the most:

• The size of any selected item and free disk space are not shown on the status bar.
• When no items are selected in a folder, neither the details pane nor the status bar show the total size of files in the folder.

Are there any plug-ins or registry tweaks that can be made to return this functionality? If not what is the quickest way to get the remaining space on a drive without having to click on something and leaving the directory you are working in?

Annoyingly, I don't think this exists.

View->Choose details has a "Space Free" setting, but that shows nothing unless you're viewing My Computer.

You can view as "Tiles" or "Content" to show the size of files in a directory.

This thread has some MVP trying to justify the removal.

The reason?

it was "removed due to a user anxiety problem, usually caused by reserved space allocations for the Virtual Memory"

Finally a solution: http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

"Classic Shell is a collection of features that were available in older versions of Windows but are removed from Vista and Windows 7. It has a classic start menu for Windows 7, it adds a toolbar for Windows Explorer and supports a variety of smaller features."

It's free and it's more like a plug-in for Explorer, you can customize the feel & look of the new Explorer to be more like the one from XP. And yeah, it shows the free disk space in the status bar.

Cheers