Re: File Names in Blue

Greetings --

Those are compressed files. By design, WinXP compresses files
that do not get used, and, if you've left the default settings intact,
displays those files in blue.

In Windows Explorer, Tools > Folder Options > View > Advanced
settings: Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color.


Bruce Chambers

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"Tod" <tod@hates.spam> wrote in message
news:052401c33e46$225b56b0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> This must be a very basic question. But hey, this is the
> Basics newsgroup! :0)
>
> I've noticed recently when I looking at file names in
> Windows Explorer that some of the files are in blue font.
> I can't find any pattern that makes one file appear in
> blue and not the others. So what does it mean when a file
> name is displayed in blue font?
>
> tod