some doc files listed in blue?

My Document Folder displays some file details in black, and others in blue.
Does anyone know why and what black OR blue means? Thanks

Gerry
Sun Apr 27 01:51:08 PDT 2008

Tommy

Blue type is commonly used in Windows Explorer to indicate compressed
files.
How To Use File Compression in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307987

File compression is not the same as compressing a drive.


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Hope this helps.

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Tommyt63 wrote:
> My Document Folder displays some file details in black, and others in
> blue. Does anyone know why and what black OR blue means? Thanks

Alan
Sun Apr 27 01:55:42 PDT 2008

Black is normal, blue is compressed and green is encrypted.
WinXP automatically compresses files that do not get used frequently.
You can alter this if desired in Windows Explorer-Tools-Folder
Options-View - "Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color"

...Alan
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On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:29:00 -0700, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers, Tommyt63
<Tommyt63@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My Document Folder displays some file details in black, and others in blue.
>Does anyone know why and what black OR blue means? Thanks

philo
Sun Apr 27 03:13:00 PDT 2008


"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:OQdVjPEqIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Tommy
>
> Blue type is commonly used in Windows Explorer to indicate compressed
> files.
> How To Use File Compression in Windows XP
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307987
>
> File compression is not the same as compressing a drive.
>
>



That's correct.

No harm in having files compressed on an NTFS drive.

It's not at all the same as compressing a fat16 drive!