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vinovin | 14:27 Sat 16th Sep 2006 | Technology

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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 ?????

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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

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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

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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

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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
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