file name color

[Lee]

My file names were all black, suddenly some are appearing blue. Nothing has
changed to my folders are the OS in general, not anything I have done.
Suggestions?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Lee" <[email protected]>

| My file names were all black, suddenly some are appearing blue. Nothing has
| changed to my folders are the OS in general, not anything I have done.
| Suggestions?
|

Blue file names are indicative of OS compressed files and/or folders.

 

[Lee]

Thanks for the explanation Dave. Now, how do I make all of them black
again? I did not compress my files on the HD in Windows XP Home Edition.
They somehow changed blue after a year using this computer.

My file names were all black, suddenly some are appearing blue. Nothing has
changed to my folders are the OS in general, not anything I have done.
Suggestions?

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Lee,

The Disk cleanup utility may have compressed the files that have not been used for a while. You can
'uncompress' them by the following method:

1) Right click the file/folder in question and select properties.
2) Click on the 'advanced' button
3) Uncheck 'compress contents to save disk space'

Click on OK.

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[Z]

Thanks for the explanation Dave. Now, how do I make all of them black
again? I did not compress my files on the HD in Windows XP Home Edition.
They somehow changed blue after a year using this computer.

Most likely, you told Windows to compress unused files.

Anyway, Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > View > uncheck Show
encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Lee" <[email protected]>

| Thanks for the explanation Dave. Now, how do I make all of them black
| again? I did not compress my files on the HD in Windows XP Home Edition.
| They somehow changed blue after a year using this computer.
|

I suggest to leave them that way. Having them compressed only saves space.

If you don't like seeing them in blue, there are ways to have all files and folders,
compressed or not, displayed in black (or any colour). For example; the control panel
applet Tweak UI "Explorer" tab.

 

[Lee]

I have the Tweak tool and it worked perfectly. I have used that before but
have not used it for Explorer....thanks a bunch for your help people!


My file names were all black, suddenly some are appearing blue. Nothing has
changed to my folders are the OS in general, not anything I have done.
Suggestions?