MyComputer and Drive C: are written in bright blue letters - why

J

JS

Windows compresses files and folders (NTFS partition) that are not accessed
very often, explorer shows these files/folders in blue.

Compression can be turned on or off on a folder by folder basis.
Just select a folder, right click and select Properties, General Tab,
Advanced Button.
In the Advanced Attributes window you will find the Compress options near
the bottom.
Check or Un-check the Compress contents option.

Also when in Explorer select: Tools, Folder Options, View, Advanced settings
to see options related to colors.

How To Use File Compression in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307987

JS
 
G

Guest

Hi JS, thankyou for your reply. I have Farstones Virual Drive Pro 11.5
installed and I am making virtual cds and installing games from those cds and
it is in Virtual
Drive Pro that I see Computer and DriveC: are written in bright blue
letters. This is a new reinstallaton of Windows XP Home Edition so I am
surprised that there would be compressed files or folders already.
 
J

JS

I've seen restore CD's from vendors that (even with a new drive) when
completed have some folders compressed. Are all your folders in blue or just
some and if so which ones?

JS
 
G

Guest

Hi and thankyou for following up...
...there are only a few folders or are they files highlighted in bright
blue.
You may like to know I had the Page File on a 10Gb partition and the XP
Home Edition operating system on a 10GB partition and 2 other larger
partitions, one for games and the other for backup files.
Tonight the computer would not boot so I reloaded the bios defaults, I
could only try this, and when Windows restarted it had shifted the page file
back to the C: drive. In the Defragmenter Utility where it would have shown
the page file as the Yellow color it is now blue but there are no files or
folders in that paartition...

I thought you may be interested in this.
Also if you like, have a look for my post tonight in the Windows XP
Hardware Newsgroup, you may find that rather interesting also and there may
be a relationship between these 2 problems I have had....
 

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