Blue captions on icon view

[Fred]

After attempting to gain some external hard disk room by compressing the
disk (XP Home--right click on disk icon, go to properties, check the box
that says compress drive to save disk space), the computer hung up. I hit
the cancel button, and thing seemed fine until the next restart. The drive
now shows up as before, except that its label is in blue, whereas all others
are in black; upon opening the window, the files within that drive are also
in blue, where they used to be black, and some of the items have
disappeared. I ran chkdsk in read-only mode, and it claimed that a number
of indices had been changed; it then proceeded to delete those entries.
However, the problem is still apparent. Any hints on how to get things back
to normal?

 

[Guest]

Blue color is normal condition when your drive/folder/files are compressed.
If you enabled the compression for the whole drive which is probably big in
size, it would take some time to compress it.
I wouldn't say your computer hanged, it was probably in the process of
compressing all of the files.

You can revert the situation by un-checking the "compress drive to save disk
space" option.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

After attempting to gain some external hard disk room by compressing the
disk (XP Home--right click on disk icon, go to properties, check the box
that says compress drive to save disk space), the computer hung up. I hit
the cancel button, and thing seemed fine until the next restart. The drive
now shows up as before, except that its label is in blue, whereas all others
are in black;

That's to be expected. Blue is the color used to indicate the
compressed files.