Color of files appearing in Windows Explorer

[Ray K]

Most of the files in both left and right panes are shown in black
lettering on a white background. But some folders have their files in
the right page as blue lettering, even though the parent folder in the
left pane is black lettering. I can't related the color of the files to
the file extension or anything else.

My two hard drives have 7 partitions. In the left pane, with all folders
collapsed, all the drives except d: are in black lettering. Within d:,
the System Volume Information, the Recycler, and the Temp folders are in
black, with the others in blue. In the System Volume Information folder
there are three entries: a Restore folder in black, a tracking.log file
in blue, and a MountPointManagerRemoteDatabase system file in black.

I've right-clicked on the various blue folders and files, and went to
Properties, but didn't see anything that would control font color. Also,
I don't see a correlation with Sharing.

Any ideas for getting all the lettering to be black?

Thanks,

Ray

 

[Malke]

Most of the files in both left and right panes are shown in black
lettering on a white background. But some folders have their files in
the right page as blue lettering, even though the parent folder in the
left pane is black lettering. I can't related the color of the files to
the file extension or anything else.

(snippage)

http://www.winxptutor.com/filecolor.htm

Malke

 

[Ray K]

(snippage)

http://www.winxptutor.com/filecolor.htm

Malke

Although the sequence of the first two steps is wrong, that did explain
and solve the problem. Thanks, Malke.

Ray