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[vinovin]

A few days ago the icon title names have changed. On some the writing colour has stayed black but on others it is now blue , I use XP and see no reason for this anybody got any ideas ?????

[vehelpfulguy]

I think when a folder name is blue it means the contents are compressed.

Have you turned compression on for some folders ?

You can turn it off as follows.

Right click on the folder name, choose Properties.

On the General tab of Properties window press the Advanced button.

There is a check box marked "Compress contents to save disk space".

Deselect this to turn off compression.

[vinovin]

vehelpfulguy .............did what you said and of course you were spot on but I have no idea how or why things changed
thanks for your help. vinovin

[behappy87]

Exactly the same thing happened to me, it was seriously started to annoy me not knowing why it had done that! I asked my brother and he said compressed files are blue. I've just followed the instructions above but the file names have stayed blue...

Any idea why?!

[vinovin]

vinovin here I have tested this info ftom vehelpfulguy and it works both ways , to return just do it in reverse oh and don't forget to click ''APPLY'' otherwise it won't work......

[behappy87]

The box wasn't selected where it had the compression option...are you saying I should select that box, then deselect it? Because I selected it and clicked on apply and then it started to compress all my files which I'm not sure that I would want, so I stopped it, and now the folder which the files where in has turned blue as well! Worst case scenario...!

[vinovin]

Hi behappy87 when I tried it I ticked the box for compression and it asked me did I want to APPLY CHANGES TO THIS FOLDER ONLY or APPLY CHANGES TO THIS FOLDER , SUBFOLDERS AND FILES ? ........I selected the last one , and if you do it in reverse it will undo the changes (I use XP) and in fact I went on to change all my doc's and pictures because by compressing them you make them a bit smaller and save space on your hard drive . You will notice no difference in your doc's or pic's and everything is undoable anyway
vinovin