Why blue text?

[Guest 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

[Guest Jack]

Re: Why blue text?

 

And next to the folders.

Thanks

Jack

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Why blue text?

 

 

"Jack" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message

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> 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.

[Guest Jack]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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

[Guest Uncle Marvo]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message

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> 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

>

[Guest Jack]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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

[Guest Uncle Marvo]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message

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> 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

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest Jack]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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

[Guest Uncle Marvo]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message

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> 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

>

[Guest Jack]

Re: Why blue text?

 

In what circumstances (using which XP programs) would the files get

compressed? Just see if I have done so recently.

Thanks

Jack

[Guest Uncle Marvo]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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.

 

"Jack" <jl@knight.com> wrote in message

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> In what circumstances (using which XP programs) would the files get

> compressed? Just see if I have done so recently.

> Thanks

> Jack

>

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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

 

Jack wrote:

> In what circumstances (using which XP programs) would the files get

> compressed? Just see if I have done so recently.

> Thanks

> Jack

>

>

[Guest Terry R.]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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

on the keyboard:

> 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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[Guest Uncle Marvo]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com> wrote in message

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

> on the keyboard:

>

>> 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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> Terry R.

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[Guest Terry R.]

Re: Why blue text?

 

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.

>

>

> "Terry R." <F1ComNOSPAM@pobox.com> wrote in message

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

>> on the keyboard:

>>

>>> 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).

>>

>

>

 

Depending on the last usage of any particular file and the trigger days

set, it could happen at any time.

 

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