On Mar 10, 2:27 pm, WOLLAM <WOL...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this is anything important, but I thought I would ask.
>
> About two weeks ago the font color of the file and folder names changed from
> black to blue. This did not happen on all files and folders, it seems to be
> random, but it happened to more than a few. Is this something I need to
> worry about? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> WOLLAM
It means you did it.
Either from during a Disk Cleanup operation or manually by your own
hand.
If the blue color is annoying (like it is to me) uncompress them
through the folder Properties and be more careful. It will not hurt
anything to have compressed files, some folks will say it could lead
to performance issues to which I will say - maybe, but show me some
numbers. Generally there is no need to compress these days. I think
it is from the Win 9X days.
You can totally disable the check for files that need compression when
using Disk Cleanup - that will sometimes save you a lot of time when
Disk Cleanup appears to hang during the operation and looks like it is
broken.
In modern times, there is usually little reason to compress files and
if you have a couple million to check, you may just stop doing Disk
Cleanup altogether since it takes so long to check for files to
compress, so just tell Disk Cleanup not to do it anymore.
Here is how to remove the check:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812248
