Re: Key Folder Titles in Local Disc C (in My Computer) Turned Blue



"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

> Compressed NTFS files are displayed in blue.
>
> Encrypted NTFS files are displayed in green.
>
> If this option is selected in Folder Options...
> Start | Run | Type: control folders | Click OK |
> View tab | Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
>
> [[Specifies that the names of files you compress or encrypt on NTFS drives
> appear in a color when you view them in a folder window. This does not
> apply to folders you compress using ZIP compression utilities.]]
>
> To uncompress files or folders.
>
> 1. Right-click the file or folder you want to uncompress and then click
> Properties.
>
> 2. On the General tab, click the Advanced button.
>
> 3. UNSelect the Compress contents to save disk space check box and then
> click OK.
>
> 4. In the Properties dialog box, click OK.
>
> 5. In Confirm Attribute Changes, select the option you want.
>
> 6. Click Apply, wait for the attributes to be applied (you'll see a window
> with a guage) then click OK.
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>


>

Thank you very much, Wes, for taking the time to explain this to me. I'm
guessing that this feature is a default prompted by my installation of
Windows ServicePack2.

I learned alot tonight. Your clear instructions motivated me to explore an
area of the interface I'd never seen before. At 50, I'm catching up fast (I
was in Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's freshman class but computer class was
voluntary then and I never really had to do more than type an email or memo
until I decided to go back to school and become a teacher. That's why I
appreciate your instruction all the more.).

I don't know what NTFS means. I also don't understand why a supposedly
compressed file is the same size (KB-wise) as an unzipped file (at least it
seems to be so based on holding the cursor over the file to get its specs
when compressed)....Maybe the size doesn't impinge on the disc in an
operati0nal way? (I really don't know what I meanbt by that last thought...I
need to learn exactly what a disc is before I startmaking guesses like that).


But understanding the "how" is as important as knowing the "why" for now.
And I owe my learning tonight to you.

Thanks again,
Dan


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