Why is some text in Blue?

[Wam7]

I've just reinstalled XP but some of the text for certain files is in blue instead of the normal black.

I can't see a pattern to it. What's the reason for this?

[Keldyn]

Compressed files i believe. I could be wrong however.

[johny]

blue is for compressed file...i think:)

[freeza]

yes blue is for compressed

however, you would need to enable it in folder options to notice the color.

[ToastGodSupreme]

you two win a cookie... :) good job

[Wam7]

Yeah, that seems to be the case. After going to proerties>advanced I noticed that the option to compress was ticked. After unchecking it they turned back to black.

Slightly strange as I've never compressed any files but that must the way I got them.

Thanks a lot!

[Keldyn]

Xp does this as part of its background maintainance. After you have been using your system for a while. It compresses old files, and those you do not use too often. It's nice because it saves you some space.

[freeza]

if you use disk cleanup frequently

and have "compress old files" checked...default is to compress files that havent been used for 50 days....so that could be it too.

[Steven]

NTFS Coloring YAY!

Blue = Compressed

Green = Encrypted.

wanna turn off the cute and pretty colors! :D

Start > Run > Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > View > Uncheck "Show Encrypted or Compressed NTFS Files In Color"

NTFS Compression has saved me about 5GB. :) its pretty cool.

[KC]

Does this only appley to NTFS? Cuz I am using fat32 because windows refuses to let me format in NTFS, probably my drive is 2 big. Can't seem to find what you guys are talking.

[honz12]

hey! cool....I had noticed these blue text files as well but wasn't sure what they were......never thought of asking here so thanks Wam7 for asking, and thanks everyone else for the informative replies :)

[Steven]

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Originally posted by kxgard3  

Does this only appley to NTFS? Cuz I am using fat32 because windows refuses to  let me format in NTFS, probably my drive is 2 big.  Can't seem to find what you guys are talking.

Read My Post.

Text Coloring is Only For NTFS, thats why you see that checkmark in folder options.

[ahodes1]

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Originally posted by kxgard3  

Does this only appley to NTFS? Cuz I am using fat32 because windows refuses to  let me format in NTFS, probably my drive is 2 big.  Can't seem to find what you guys are talking.

Negative there, Windows will format NTFS to all large drives, but only FAT32 to somewhere around 32GB. I just had a machine that for some reason didn't like to use NTFS, it would get HD errors 5 mins after install, but FAT32 worked fine. Anyways, that's not why you can't format in NTFS.

[Gumboot]

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Cuz I am using fat32 because windows refuses to let me format in NTFS, probably my drive is 2 big.

Lets see, NTFS supports drive sizes up to 18 billion gigabytes. You must have a one huge mamma of a hard drive! :D

[Steven]

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Originally posted by ahodes1  

Negative there, Windows will format NTFS to all large drives, but only FAT32 to somewhere around 32GB.  I just had a machine that for some reason didn't like to use NTFS, it would get HD errors 5 mins after install, but FAT32 worked fine.  Anyways, that's not why you can't format in NTFS.

Limitations Of The FAT32 File System In Windows XP

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q314463

[KC]

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Lets see, NTFS supports drive sizes up to 18 billion gigabytes. You must have a one huge mamma of a hard drive

yah then we would be talking tera bytes........errrrrrrrr