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We recently noticed that when viewing files through Explorer and when
clicking on Open in Word or Office programs, some file names are black and
some are blue. I particularly noticed that temporary files are blue. Other
than that, we can't figure out any rhymn or reason why some would be one
color and others another.

We also noticed that some folders have the blue arrows indicating
synchronization and others don't. We're not sure what's determining that
either since we never set up synchronization.

Thanks for any enlightenment you may be able to offer.

Cathy
 
Hi

The blues files are compressed ones.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups
 
Thanks, Will. How does that happen if you don't check Compress Old Files
when you do Disk Cleanup?
 
Compressed NTFS files are displayed in blue.

Encrypted NTFS files are displayed in green.

If this option is selected in Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color

Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
[[Specifies that the names of files you compress or encrypt on NTFS drives
appear in a color when you view them in a folder window. This does not
apply to folders you compress using ZIP compression utilities.]]


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
 
Thanks, Wes. This was helpful. Is there any correlation to the folders with
blue arrows on them? Is synchronization strictly controlled through Start,
Accessories, Synchronize?

Wesley Vogel said:
Compressed NTFS files are displayed in blue.

Encrypted NTFS files are displayed in green.

If this option is selected in Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color

Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
[[Specifies that the names of files you compress or encrypt on NTFS drives
appear in a color when you view them in a folder window. This does not
apply to folders you compress using ZIP compression utilities.]]


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Cathy C said:
Thanks, Will. How does that happen if you don't check Compress Old Files
when you do Disk Cleanup?
Click to expand...
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I have no idea what folders with blue arrows on them are.
Is synchronization strictly controlled through
Start, Accessories, Synchronize?
Click to expand...

No.

Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Synchronize is really mobsync.exe, the
Microsoft Synchronization Manager.

mobsync.exe is a process associated with Internet Explorer and is used to
synchronize the offline pages you have chosen to be stored locally with the
matching online pages.

Synchronization Manager can also be opened from the command line. Click
Start, click Run, type in mobsync, and then click OK.

Type: synchronize in the Search box in Help and Support, there are 75
hits.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Cathy C said:
Thanks, Wes. This was helpful. Is there any correlation to the folders
with blue arrows on them? Is synchronization strictly controlled through
Start, Accessories, Synchronize?

Wesley Vogel said:
Compressed NTFS files are displayed in blue.

Encrypted NTFS files are displayed in green.

If this option is selected in Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color

Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
[[Specifies that the names of files you compress or encrypt on NTFS
drives appear in a color when you view them in a folder window. This
does not apply to folders you compress using ZIP compression utilities.]]


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Cathy C said:
Thanks, Will. How does that happen if you don't check Compress Old Files
when you do Disk Cleanup?


Hi

The blues files are compressed ones.

--


Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups

We recently noticed that when viewing files through Explorer and when
clicking on Open in Word or Office programs, some file names are black
and some are blue. I particularly noticed that temporary files are
blue. Other than that, we can't figure out any rhymn or reason why
some would be one color and others another.

We also noticed that some folders have the blue arrows indicating
synchronization and others don't. We're not sure what's determining
that either since we never set up synchronization.

Thanks for any enlightenment you may be able to offer.

Cathy
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
I tried to email a screen shot of the folders with blue arrows, but the email
was returned. If you'll go to this PDF
(http://www-it.desy.de/support/projects/win-mig/docu/Faltblatt-Notebooks_englisch.pdf)
and enlarge, you'll see the ones I'm referring to. We do not wish to
synchronize and have never deliberately set anyone up to synchronize.

Wesley Vogel said:
I have no idea what folders with blue arrows on them are.
Is synchronization strictly controlled through
Start, Accessories, Synchronize?
Click to expand...

No.

Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Synchronize is really mobsync.exe, the
Microsoft Synchronization Manager.

mobsync.exe is a process associated with Internet Explorer and is used to
synchronize the offline pages you have chosen to be stored locally with the
matching online pages.

Synchronization Manager can also be opened from the command line. Click
Start, click Run, type in mobsync, and then click OK.

Type: synchronize in the Search box in Help and Support, there are 75
hits.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Cathy C said:
Thanks, Wes. This was helpful. Is there any correlation to the folders
with blue arrows on them? Is synchronization strictly controlled through
Start, Accessories, Synchronize?

Wesley Vogel said:
Compressed NTFS files are displayed in blue.

Encrypted NTFS files are displayed in green.

If this option is selected in Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color

Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
[[Specifies that the names of files you compress or encrypt on NTFS
drives appear in a color when you view them in a folder window. This
does not apply to folders you compress using ZIP compression utilities.]]


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Cathy C <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Thanks, Will. How does that happen if you don't check Compress Old Files
when you do Disk Cleanup?


Hi

The blues files are compressed ones.

--


Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups

We recently noticed that when viewing files through Explorer and when
clicking on Open in Word or Office programs, some file names are black
and some are blue. I particularly noticed that temporary files are
blue. Other than that, we can't figure out any rhymn or reason why
some would be one color and others another.

We also noticed that some folders have the blue arrows indicating
synchronization and others don't. We're not sure what's determining
that either since we never set up synchronization.

Thanks for any enlightenment you may be able to offer.

Cathy
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Hi Cathy,

You are using Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000, not a real newsreader, so you
can not attach anything. And if you tried to E-mail me, my address is
munged, remove the 123.

Do you mean the folder that appears on Folder Options | Offline Files tab?

The C:\WINDOWS\Offline Web Pages folder has those blue arrows.

The Icon for that folder is icon #0 from %SystemRoot%\System32\webcheck.dll

Do you have other folders that have that icon?

Open Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
Click the Offline Files tab | UNCheck: Enable Offline Files |
If that doesn't unselect everything else, UNCheck everything else |
Click Apply | Click OK

Also see this...
How to use offline files in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307853

To delete your offline files
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...s/csc_delete_your_offline_files.mspx?mfr=true

This can also happen in Internet Explorer.

If you have done this in Internet Explorer, To make the current Web page
available offline

1. On the Favorites menu, click Add to Favorites.
2. Select the Make available offline check box.

Make available offline
[[Specifies that you want the content from the selected Web page available
when your computer is not connected to the Internet. When a page is marked
available offline, you can update the content manually by clicking
Synchronize on the Tools menu. If you want to update automatically, click
the Customize button in this dialog box, and then set up a schedule. ]]

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Cathy C said:
I tried to email a screen shot of the folders with blue arrows, but the
email was returned. If you'll go to this PDF
(http://www-it.desy.de/support/projects/win-mig/docu/Faltblatt-Notebooks_eng
lisch.pdf)
and enlarge, you'll see the ones I'm referring to. We do not wish to
synchronize and have never deliberately set anyone up to synchronize.

Wesley Vogel said:
I have no idea what folders with blue arrows on them are.
Is synchronization strictly controlled through
Start, Accessories, Synchronize?
Click to expand...

No.

Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Synchronize is really mobsync.exe, the
Microsoft Synchronization Manager.

mobsync.exe is a process associated with Internet Explorer and is used to
synchronize the offline pages you have chosen to be stored locally with
the matching online pages.

Synchronization Manager can also be opened from the command line. Click
Start, click Run, type in mobsync, and then click OK.

Type: synchronize in the Search box in Help and Support, there are 75
hits.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Cathy C said:
Thanks, Wes. This was helpful. Is there any correlation to the folders
with blue arrows on them? Is synchronization strictly controlled through
Start, Accessories, Synchronize?

:

Compressed NTFS files are displayed in blue.

Encrypted NTFS files are displayed in green.

If this option is selected in Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color

Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
[[Specifies that the names of files you compress or encrypt on NTFS
drives appear in a color when you view them in a folder window. This
does not apply to folders you compress using ZIP compression
utilities.]]


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Cathy C <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Thanks, Will. How does that happen if you don't check Compress Old
Files when you do Disk Cleanup?


Hi

The blues files are compressed ones.

--


Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups

We recently noticed that when viewing files through Explorer and
when clicking on Open in Word or Office programs, some file names
are black and some are blue. I particularly noticed that temporary
files are blue. Other than that, we can't figure out any rhymn or
reason why some would be one color and others another.

We also noticed that some folders have the blue arrows indicating
synchronization and others don't. We're not sure what's determining
that either since we never set up synchronization.

Thanks for any enlightenment you may be able to offer.

Cathy
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Thanks much, Wes. This does help. I'll play with the settings and see what
happens. I'll also read up on the links you provided.

Regards,

Cathy

Wesley Vogel said:
Hi Cathy,

You are using Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000, not a real newsreader, so you
can not attach anything. And if you tried to E-mail me, my address is
munged, remove the 123.

Do you mean the folder that appears on Folder Options | Offline Files tab?

The C:\WINDOWS\Offline Web Pages folder has those blue arrows.

The Icon for that folder is icon #0 from %SystemRoot%\System32\webcheck.dll

Do you have other folders that have that icon?

Open Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
Click the Offline Files tab | UNCheck: Enable Offline Files |
If that doesn't unselect everything else, UNCheck everything else |
Click Apply | Click OK

Also see this...
How to use offline files in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307853

To delete your offline files
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...s/csc_delete_your_offline_files.mspx?mfr=true

This can also happen in Internet Explorer.

If you have done this in Internet Explorer, To make the current Web page
available offline

1. On the Favorites menu, click Add to Favorites.
2. Select the Make available offline check box.

Make available offline
[[Specifies that you want the content from the selected Web page available
when your computer is not connected to the Internet. When a page is marked
available offline, you can update the content manually by clicking
Synchronize on the Tools menu. If you want to update automatically, click
the Customize button in this dialog box, and then set up a schedule. ]]

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Cathy C said:
I tried to email a screen shot of the folders with blue arrows, but the
email was returned. If you'll go to this PDF
(http://www-it.desy.de/support/projects/win-mig/docu/Faltblatt-Notebooks_eng
lisch.pdf)
and enlarge, you'll see the ones I'm referring to. We do not wish to
synchronize and have never deliberately set anyone up to synchronize.

Wesley Vogel said:
I have no idea what folders with blue arrows on them are.

Is synchronization strictly controlled through
Start, Accessories, Synchronize?

No.

Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Synchronize is really mobsync.exe, the
Microsoft Synchronization Manager.

mobsync.exe is a process associated with Internet Explorer and is used to
synchronize the offline pages you have chosen to be stored locally with
the matching online pages.

Synchronization Manager can also be opened from the command line. Click
Start, click Run, type in mobsync, and then click OK.

Type: synchronize in the Search box in Help and Support, there are 75
hits.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Cathy C <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Thanks, Wes. This was helpful. Is there any correlation to the folders
with blue arrows on them? Is synchronization strictly controlled through
Start, Accessories, Synchronize?

:

Compressed NTFS files are displayed in blue.

Encrypted NTFS files are displayed in green.

If this option is selected in Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color

Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
[[Specifies that the names of files you compress or encrypt on NTFS
drives appear in a color when you view them in a folder window. This
does not apply to folders you compress using ZIP compression
utilities.]]


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Cathy C <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Thanks, Will. How does that happen if you don't check Compress Old
Files when you do Disk Cleanup?


Hi

The blues files are compressed ones.

--


Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups

We recently noticed that when viewing files through Explorer and
when clicking on Open in Word or Office programs, some file names
are black and some are blue. I particularly noticed that temporary
files are blue. Other than that, we can't figure out any rhymn or
reason why some would be one color and others another.

We also noticed that some folders have the blue arrows indicating
synchronization and others don't. We're not sure what's determining
that either since we never set up synchronization.

Thanks for any enlightenment you may be able to offer.

Cathy
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
Post back, Cathy and let us know what happens. Good luck. ;-)

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Cathy C said:
Thanks much, Wes. This does help. I'll play with the settings and see what
happens. I'll also read up on the links you provided.

Regards,

Cathy

Wesley Vogel said:
Hi Cathy,

You are using Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000, not a real newsreader, so
you can not attach anything. And if you tried to E-mail me, my address
is munged, remove the 123.

Do you mean the folder that appears on Folder Options | Offline Files
tab?

The C:\WINDOWS\Offline Web Pages folder has those blue arrows.

The Icon for that folder is icon #0 from
%SystemRoot%\System32\webcheck.dll

Do you have other folders that have that icon?

Open Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
Click the Offline Files tab | UNCheck: Enable Offline Files |
If that doesn't unselect everything else, UNCheck everything else |
Click Apply | Click OK

Also see this...
How to use offline files in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307853

To delete your offline files
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...s/csc_delete_your_offline_files.mspx?mfr=true

This can also happen in Internet Explorer.

If you have done this in Internet Explorer, To make the current Web page
available offline

1. On the Favorites menu, click Add to Favorites.
2. Select the Make available offline check box.

Make available offline
[[Specifies that you want the content from the selected Web page
available when your computer is not connected to the Internet. When a
page is marked available offline, you can update the content manually by
clicking Synchronize on the Tools menu. If you want to update
automatically, click the Customize button in this dialog box, and then
set up a schedule. ]]

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In
Cathy C said:
I tried to email a screen shot of the folders with blue arrows, but the
email was returned. If you'll go to this PDF
Click to expand...
(http://www-it.desy.de/support/projects/win-mig/docu/Faltblatt-Notebooks_eng
lisch.pdf)
and enlarge, you'll see the ones I'm referring to. We do not wish to
synchronize and have never deliberately set anyone up to synchronize.

:

I have no idea what folders with blue arrows on them are.

Is synchronization strictly controlled through
Start, Accessories, Synchronize?

No.

Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Synchronize is really mobsync.exe, the
Microsoft Synchronization Manager.

mobsync.exe is a process associated with Internet Explorer and is used
to synchronize the offline pages you have chosen to be stored locally
with the matching online pages.

Synchronization Manager can also be opened from the command line. Click
Start, click Run, type in mobsync, and then click OK.

Type: synchronize in the Search box in Help and Support, there are 75
hits.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Cathy C <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Thanks, Wes. This was helpful. Is there any correlation to the folders
with blue arrows on them? Is synchronization strictly controlled
through Start, Accessories, Synchronize?

:

Compressed NTFS files are displayed in blue.

Encrypted NTFS files are displayed in green.

If this option is selected in Folder Options...
Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
View tab | Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color

Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
[[Specifies that the names of files you compress or encrypt on NTFS
drives appear in a color when you view them in a folder window. This
does not apply to folders you compress using ZIP compression
utilities.]]


--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In Cathy C <[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
Thanks, Will. How does that happen if you don't check Compress Old
Files when you do Disk Cleanup?


Hi

The blues files are compressed ones.

--


Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups

We recently noticed that when viewing files through Explorer and
when clicking on Open in Word or Office programs, some file names
are black and some are blue. I particularly noticed that temporary
files are blue. Other than that, we can't figure out any rhymn or
reason why some would be one color and others another.

We also noticed that some folders have the blue arrows indicating
synchronization and others don't. We're not sure what's
determining that either since we never set up synchronization.

Thanks for any enlightenment you may be able to offer.

Cathy
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