Blue filenames?

[UnWarierMage224]

Hi all,

Kind of a weird problem that's bugging me... for some reason, certain files show up in a blue font in windows explorer rather than the standard black color. File extension doesn't matter... it could be a word file, a system critical file, anything...

Any explanation?
It's not affecting my system, but this just started happening out of the... pardon the pun... blue.

PS: I attached a pic of this... sorry for the img quality, but basically if you look @ the top of the photo, it's black text for names and the rest is all blue...

Thanks,

-'Mage

 

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Blue filenames usually mean compressed NTFS files.

 

[TS | Thomas]

Open Folder Options in the Control Panel. Select the View tab. Try toggling "Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color".

 

[TS | Thomas]

Yeah, well, I typed more

 

[UnWarierMage224]

great, thanks!

However, what's weird is that I don't have drive compression turned on... does NTFS automatically compress the drive?

EDIT: I mean that if I go to my computer, right click on C, and say Properties, the drive compression checkbox isn't turned on... unless there's another way to turn it on?

*confused*

 

[TS | Thomas]

With NTFS, file's can be compressed on a per-file basis. If you right-click on on of these blue files & select Properties -> Advanced it'll indicate whether its encrypted or compressed. Windows'll do it automatically for certain files so it's nothing to worry about or anything you may have selected unknowingly causing this - it's by design.

Much of what is automatically compressed is Uninstall info. for Hotfixes - basically files you're unlikely to require in everyday use. Only in older versions of Windows was it necessary to use drive compression for everything, or not at all.

 

[UnWarierMage224]

cool, thanks all!