When you open Internet Explorer on Windows XP SP2, and press the Tools / Manage Add-Ons menu, the Manage Add-ons dialog displays the following columns:

Name
Publisher
Status
Type
File

If you right-click a heading, you can select the following optional columns:

Last Accessed
Used
Blocked
Class ID
In Folder
Version

Unfortunately, the next time you open the Manage Add-ons dialog, the optional columns are NOT remembered.

I have scripted ManageAddonColumns.bat to force Internet Explorer to remember your selection.

To use ManageAddonColumns.bat, first close all instances of Internet Explorer. Then open a CMD.EXE window and run:

ManageAddonColumns ColumnLetter1 \[ColumnLetter2 ... ColumnLetterN\]

Where each ColumnLetter is the first letter of the optional column heading that you want remembered. The case and sequence of the ColumnLetter is NOT important. To remember all the optional columns, run:

ManageAddonColumns L U B C I V

NOTE: An optional Z ColumnLetter will cause Internet Explorer to Zero (forget) all the previously remembered optional columns (ManageAddonColumns Z).

ManageAddonColumns.bat contains:

@echo on
if \{%1\}
\{\} @echo Syntax: ManageAddonColumns ColumnLetter1 \[ColumnLetter2 ... ColumnLetterN\]&goto :EOF
setlocal
set /a sum=0
set table=L0016U0032B0064C0128I0512V1024Z0000
:Parms
if \{%1\}
\{\} goto setit
set /a cnt=0
:Cols
if %cnt% GTR 6 goto err
set /a pos=%cnt% * 5
call set char=%%table:~%pos%^,1%%
if /i "%1" NEQ "%char%" set /a cnt=%cnt% + 1&goto Cols
if /i "%1" EQU "Z" set /a sum=0
set /a pos=%pos% + 1
call set numw=%%table:~%pos%^,4%%
set /a num=10000%numw%%%10000
set /a sum=%sum% + %num%
shift
goto Parms
:setit
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main" /V ManageAddonColumns /T REG_DWORD /D %sum% /F
@echo Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")>"%TEMP%\ManageAddonColumns.vbs"
@echo oShell.Run "%SystemRoot%\System32\RUNDLL32.EXE user32.dll,UpdatePerUserSystemParameters", 1, True>>"%TEMP%\ManageAddonColumns.vbs"
cscript //nologo "%TEMP%\ManageAddonColumns.vbs"
del /q "%TEMP%\ManageAddonColumns.vbs"
endlocal
goto :EOF
:err
@echo Syntax: ManageAddonColumns - Invalid column letter.
endlocal