Fonts-changing color mysteriously

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Hans Castorp

Dear All,

Many of the file names in various folders are changing color. In some
folders-all files names have changed to blue, in others, inly some have
changed. The default is set to black.

Any ideas would be helpful.

Alan
 
Hi Alan,

It simply means they have been compressed. This is common after running disk
cleanup. It does not hurt them to remain this way.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Hans said:
Dear All,

Many of the file names in various folders are changing color. In some
folders-all files names have changed to blue, in others, inly some have
changed. The default is set to black.

Any ideas would be helpful.

Alan
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By design, WinXP automatically compresses files that do not get
used frequently, and, if you've left the default settings intact,
displays those file names in blue.

If you wish to change this behavior, in Windows Explorer, click
Tools > Folder Options > View > Advanced settings: Show encrypted or
compressed NTFS files in color.



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Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH
 
Thanks very much.

Alan


Rick "Nutcase" Rogers said:
Hi Alan,

It simply means they have been compressed. This is common after running disk
cleanup. It does not hurt them to remain this way.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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Thank to you as well.

Alan
Bruce Chambers said:
By design, WinXP automatically compresses files that do not get
used frequently, and, if you've left the default settings intact,
displays those file names in blue.

If you wish to change this behavior, in Windows Explorer, click
Tools > Folder Options > View > Advanced settings: Show encrypted or
compressed NTFS files in color.



--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:



You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once. - RAH
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OK here is the thing. The original font color for any folder/file is
Black. The thing that is wrong, is that maybe you accidently selected
an option to compress your files and folders to save space on a
harddrive. If you did this on purpose, that is the explanation right
there, but if not, you can disable this by right clicking on the
harddrive that has the blue color, look down at the check boxes and
uncheck compress to save disk space. That should be the solution to
your problem.

Have fun

Carlos.
 
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