Blue file name fonts in Windows Explorer

[Maxtone Witherball]

Hi, I was just wondering why all of a sudden some of the
file names in Windows Explorer appear in blue font. It's
kind of disconcerting not knowing the reason for this
development.

Thanks very much for any information.

 

[Phil]

Blue files are compressed files. They got that way when you ran the disk
cleanup utility and choose to compress old or rarely used files.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Hi, I was just wondering why all of a sudden some of the
file names in Windows Explorer appear in blue font.

It indicates that a file or folder is compressed to save space, in the
expectation it will rarely be used. Common example the folders of files
that would be used to uninstall Windows Update 'Hotfixes' -
$NTUninstallQnnnnnn$