Folder Text Color

In Explorer I noticed that a folder

C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail

the name text is a different color than the rest of the folders. The other
folder the fore color is black and for this folder it's blue.

Any ideas why this is so?

James

Folders with blue text are compressed folders. You must have ticked the
compression box in Properties > Advanced.


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whs

Black is normal, blue is compressed and green is encrypted.
Windows 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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Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer
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On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:54:38 -0500, in
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general, "JamesJ"
<jjy@darwin_roadrunne0r.com> wrote:

>In Explorer I noticed that a folder
>
>C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail
>
>the name text is a different color than the rest of the folders. The other
>folder the fore color is black and for this folder it's blue.
>
>Any ideas why this is so?
>
>James
>
>

"Stan Starinski" <China@stealsUSJobsPatentsSoftwareMusicVideo> wrote in
message news:...
> This is an Encrypted folder, most likely.
>
> In WinExplorer goto:
> Tools-->Folders Options-->View-->scroll down to "view encrypted NTFS
> folders in color".
> If that option is checked, what you see is probably blue font.'
> Normally system encrypts it, some users may manually.
>
>
> It is also possible some application other than Windows, does its own
> coloring for its own folders, but HIGHLY unlikely in this case.
> Most likely Windows encrypted your folder if you're running in multiple
> users environment, so others can't access your messages.
>
> P.S. Well people like me can access whatever, but normal users can't.

P.S. So you are correct in saying that you are abnormal. Good for you. You
are on the right step to recovery.
>

That's what it was, it was compressed.
I didn't set this folder to compressed.
Is there a program that changes folders to compressed?
Otherwise I have to blame the cat, again.

I'll post to Windows Live Mail ng see if they have an answer.

Thanks much,
James

"whs" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Folders with blue text are compressed folders. You must have ticked the
> compression box in Properties > Advanced.
>
>
> --
> whs

James, must have been the cat. I have never encoutered a program tha
does this on existing folders. New files written by e.g. an imagin
program could be compressed

--
whs

Ok. Thanks


"whs" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> James, must have been the cat. I have never encoutered a program that
> does this on existing folders. New files written by e.g. an imaging
> program could be compressed.
>
>
> --
> whs

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 14:42:50 -0500, JamesJ wrote:

> That's what it was, it was compressed.
> I didn't set this folder to compressed.
> Is there a program that changes folders to compressed?
> Otherwise I have to blame the cat, again.

Definitely the cat...

Or the poltergeist.

> I'll post to Windows Live Mail ng see if they have an answer.
>
> Thanks much,
> James
>
> "whs" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> Folders with blue text are compressed folders. You must have ticked the
>> compression box in Properties > Advanced.
>>
>>
>> --
>> whs


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JamesJ wrote:
> In Explorer I noticed that a folder
>
> C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live Mail
>
> the name text is a different color than the rest of the folders. The other
> folder the fore color is black and for this folder it's blue.
>
> Any ideas why this is so?
>
> James
>
>


By design, WinXP automatically compresses files that do not get used
frequently, and, if you've left the default settings intact, displays
those files in blue. Encrypted files show as green. If you wish to
change this behavior, in Windows Explorer, click Tools > Folder Options
> View > Advanced settings: Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in
color.


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JamesJ wrote:
> That's what it was, it was compressed.
> I didn't set this folder to compressed.
> Is there a program that changes folders to compressed?


By design, WinXP automatically compresses files that do not get used
frequently.





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Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

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killed a great many philosophers.
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