File name color change

[Joe]

After i did a disk cleanup and a defrag and a spyware scan some of my file
names are now black and some of the file names are blue. Everything seems
to work OK with the files. Why did the files names change color? Can
anybody help me. They used to be all black in color-no blue file names!
What can I do to get them back to black or does it not matter.
Thank you.
Joe

 

[Steve Pearce]

After i did a disk cleanup and a defrag and a spyware scan some of my file
names are now black and some of the file names are blue. Everything seems
to work OK with the files. Why did the files names change color? Can
anybody help me. They used to be all black in color-no blue file names!
What can I do to get them back to black or does it not matter.

Google would told you that filename in blue indicate the file in
question is compressed...one of the side effects of doing a clean-up.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

After i did a disk cleanup and a defrag and a spyware scan some of my
file names are now black and some of the file names are blue. Everything
seems to work OK with the files. Why did the files names
change color? Can anybody help me. They used to be all black in
color-no blue file names! What can I do to get them back to black or
does it not matter.

One of the options in Disk Cleanup is to Compress old files. If you leave
that box checked (and you apparently did), it marks the files it compressed
in blue.

No need to change anything.