Hi,

Not sure where to post this one so if I am wrong I apologize.

In the My Documents folder most of the file names are listed in black font.
Some have recently changed to blue color font. I have no idea why this
happened, I only know that it happened a few weeks ago. It seems to be
random. I thought mabye it was files created by other users, or files from
previous years but that is not consistant. The actual file contents seem to
be fine... it is just not "normal" to see blue and black file names
throughout the folders. I would like to understand how/why this happened and
return to one color font (black) if possible, unless there is some good
reason for this.

I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Dell 6000 Inspiron, McAffee virus scan.
I also sinc files using second copy 2000 with a desktop running XP Pro SP2,
Bitdefender virus scan, but the files on the desktop are not having the same
issue. The desktop is fat32 and the laptop is NTFS if that makes any
difference.

Does anyone have a clue about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks and happy new year!

Sincerely,
Rob

--
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

Files with blue names have been compressed by XP.

Steven

"Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:01F5E3CD-CABF-41CC-B259-6BDD68161FD7@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> Not sure where to post this one so if I am wrong I apologize.
>
> In the My Documents folder most of the file names are listed in black font.
> Some have recently changed to blue color font. I have no idea why this
> happened, I only know that it happened a few weeks ago. It seems to be
> random. I thought mabye it was files created by other users, or files from
> previous years but that is not consistant. The actual file contents seem to
> be fine... it is just not "normal" to see blue and black file names
> throughout the folders. I would like to understand how/why this happened and
> return to one color font (black) if possible, unless there is some good
> reason for this.
>
> I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Dell 6000 Inspiron, McAffee virus scan.
> I also sinc files using second copy 2000 with a desktop running XP Pro SP2,
> Bitdefender virus scan, but the files on the desktop are not having the same
> issue. The desktop is fat32 and the laptop is NTFS if that makes any
> difference.
>
> Does anyone have a clue about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks and happy new year!
>
> Sincerely,
> Rob
>
> --
> Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

Hi

The blue fonts indicate compressed files. There is some info. in Help and
Support and also here:

"File Compression"
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_oexm.asp

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Will Denny
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups

"Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:01F5E3CD-CABF-41CC-B259-6BDD68161FD7@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> Not sure where to post this one so if I am wrong I apologize.
>
> In the My Documents folder most of the file names are listed in black
> font.
> Some have recently changed to blue color font. I have no idea why this
> happened, I only know that it happened a few weeks ago. It seems to be
> random. I thought mabye it was files created by other users, or files from
> previous years but that is not consistant. The actual file contents seem
> to
> be fine... it is just not "normal" to see blue and black file names
> throughout the folders. I would like to understand how/why this happened
> and
> return to one color font (black) if possible, unless there is some good
> reason for this.
>
> I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Dell 6000 Inspiron, McAffee virus
> scan.
> I also sinc files using second copy 2000 with a desktop running XP Pro
> SP2,
> Bitdefender virus scan, but the files on the desktop are not having the
> same
> issue. The desktop is fat32 and the laptop is NTFS if that makes any
> difference.
>
> Does anyone have a clue about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks and happy new year!
>
> Sincerely,
> Rob
>
> --
> Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

Hi,

Thanks M and D, and Will, I appreciate the quick response. It does not
happen on my desktop so it was foreign to me. I will look through the
information.

Thanks again!!

Sincerely,
Rob


--
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.


"Will Denny" wrote:

> Hi
>
> The blue fonts indicate compressed files. There is some info. in Help and
> Support and also here:
>
> "File Compression"
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...c_fil_oexm.asp
>
> --
>
>
> Will Denny
> MS MVP Windows Shell/User
> Please reply to the News Groups
>
> "Rob" <Rob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:01F5E3CD-CABF-41CC-B259-6BDD68161FD7@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Not sure where to post this one so if I am wrong I apologize.
> >
> > In the My Documents folder most of the file names are listed in black
> > font.
> > Some have recently changed to blue color font. I have no idea why this
> > happened, I only know that it happened a few weeks ago. It seems to be
> > random. I thought mabye it was files created by other users, or files from
> > previous years but that is not consistant. The actual file contents seem
> > to
> > be fine... it is just not "normal" to see blue and black file names
> > throughout the folders. I would like to understand how/why this happened
> > and
> > return to one color font (black) if possible, unless there is some good
> > reason for this.
> >
> > I am running Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Dell 6000 Inspiron, McAffee virus
> > scan.
> > I also sinc files using second copy 2000 with a desktop running XP Pro
> > SP2,
> > Bitdefender virus scan, but the files on the desktop are not having the
> > same
> > issue. The desktop is fat32 and the laptop is NTFS if that makes any
> > difference.
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue about this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks and happy new year!
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Rob
> >
> > --
> > Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.
>
>
>