Blue captions on icon view

[Guest Fred]

After attempting to gain some external hard disk room by compressing the

disk (XP Home--right click on disk icon, go to properties, check the box

that says compress drive to save disk space), the computer hung up. I hit

the cancel button, and thing seemed fine until the next restart. The drive

now shows up as before, except that its label is in blue, whereas all others

are in black; upon opening the window, the files within that drive are also

in blue, where they used to be black, and some of the items have

disappeared. I ran chkdsk in read-only mode, and it claimed that a number

of indices had been changed; it then proceeded to delete those entries.

However, the problem is still apparent. Any hints on how to get things back

to normal?

[Guest N1K]

RE: Blue captions on icon view

 

Blue color is normal condition when your drive/folder/files are compressed.

If you enabled the compression for the whole drive which is probably big in

size, it would take some time to compress it.

I wouldn't say your computer hanged, it was probably in the process of

compressing all of the files.

 

You can revert the situation by un-checking the "compress drive to save disk

space" option.

 

--

MCSA, MCDST, MCP

Systems Specialist

http://www.wincert.net

 

 

"Fred" wrote:

> After attempting to gain some external hard disk room by compressing the

> disk (XP Home--right click on disk icon, go to properties, check the box

> that says compress drive to save disk space), the computer hung up. I hit

> the cancel button, and thing seemed fine until the next restart. The drive

> now shows up as before, except that its label is in blue, whereas all others

> are in black; upon opening the window, the files within that drive are also

> in blue, where they used to be black, and some of the items have

> disappeared. I ran chkdsk in read-only mode, and it claimed that a number

> of indices had been changed; it then proceeded to delete those entries.

> However, the problem is still apparent. Any hints on how to get things back

> to normal?

>

>

>

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

Re: Blue captions on icon view

 

On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:56:23 -0700, "Fred" <Fred@deleted.com> wrote:

> After attempting to gain some external hard disk room by compressing the

> disk (XP Home--right click on disk icon, go to properties, check the box

> that says compress drive to save disk space), the computer hung up. I hit

> the cancel button, and thing seemed fine until the next restart. The drive

> now shows up as before, except that its label is in blue, whereas all others

> are in black;

 

 

That's to be expected. Blue is the color used to indicate the

compressed files.

 

--

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User

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