Why blue text?

[Jack]

Hello,
In some of my folders, the text underneath the icon is blue. Why? recently,
I also found some files on my computer mysteriously gone. Is it another
strong virus/spyware...
Thanks
Jack

 

[Jack]

And next to the folders.
Thanks
Jack

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello,
In some of my folders, the text underneath the icon is blue. Why?
recently, I also found some files on my computer mysteriously gone. Is it
another strong virus/spyware...
Thanks
Jack

- Double-click "My Computer"
- Right-click one of the blue folders
- Click "Properties"
- Click "Advanced"
You will probably see that the the contents of this folder
is compressed, hence the blue colouring.

 

[Jack]

Hi Pegasus,
Thank you for your reply. The files in blue are randomly distributed on my
hard drives and that's why I am suspicious. But how can I turn them back to
black all at once? (in batch)
Thanks
Jack

 

[Uncle Marvo]

There is no reason why you shouldn't select them all and then do what
Pegasus suggests. On the ones that are already uncompressed/unencrypted, no
action will be taken.

But there is no reason I can think of why you should want them to turn
black, unless you really don't like the colour blue! You will take up more
disc space when you do this.

 

[Jack]

Hi "Uncle Marvo",
Because I am constantly having a data loss, to avoid extra burden on my
computer and my brain , I'd like to have them all back to default...
Thanks
Jack

 

[Uncle Marvo]

Check your free space though. The blue ones will get bigger, by different
amounts depending on what they are. If they are JPG/ZIP etc they might even
get smaller, but text and other types of file will get quite a lot bigger.

HTH

 

[Jack]

Hello,
Just one more question. When I defrag my hard drives, would some of my files
get compressed during this time? I am still very worried about my files,
because I keep losing them. don't know my computer has already been
infected...
Thanks
Jack

 

[Uncle Marvo]

No reason why they should get compressed, defrag wouldn't do it AFAIK.

Do you lose random files, or a particular file location/file type?

If you scan your PC you should know whether you have a virus. Try Avast!
home edition (free download) or Panda online scan if you don't have a
checker.

HTH

 

[Jack]

In what circumstances (using which XP programs) would the files get
compressed? Just see if I have done so recently.
Thanks
Jack

 

[Uncle Marvo]

None automatically that I know of. Unless they are inside a folder marked as
"compress".

Perhaps someone else knows of something that will do this without you
telling it to.

 

[Bob I]

If you ran Disk Cleanup and allowed Old files to be compressed.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 5/20/2008 5:02 AM, and on a whim, Jack pounded out

In what circumstances (using which XP programs) would the files get
compressed? Just see if I have done so recently.
Thanks
Jack

Hi Jack,

There is an option to set how many days Windows waits to compress files.
You can set it manually but I think the default is 50 days. Open
Disk Cleanup (in Accessories, System Tools), click on "Compress old
files" and then click the Options button. You can change the days
before files are compressed (if not used).

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[Uncle Marvo]

That's an interesting thing.

Does this happen on its own, or only when you invoke Disk Cleanup? Only if
it does happen autonomously, it would explain why my CPU usage goes up when
I have the PC locked with no major applications running.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 5/20/2008 7:04 AM, and on a whim, Uncle Marvo
pounded out on the keyboard:

That's an interesting thing.

Does this happen on its own, or only when you invoke Disk Cleanup? Only if
it does happen autonomously, it would explain why my CPU usage goes up when
I have the PC locked with no major applications running.

Depending on the last usage of any particular file and the trigger days
set, it could happen at any time.

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