For what ever reason in Windows XP Professional some of my icons seem to go from black text to blue text for no reason, mainly in directories. When there is a new icon the text is black but ones that have been there for a while are blue.
This doesn't really worry me but I would like to know why this happens.
Cheers in advance!
I bet you use 'Disk Cleanup', and when you do you select the option "Compress old files to save space"?
The blue text simply indicates a compressed file. Don't confuse that with 'Zipped' files though. the compression referred to here is NTFS compression, which is different.
Thanks for the response.
I had a look and I don't think that I check that box but I do have some compressed old files that can be chosen.
Any other theories/explanations that may cause this?
Cheers.
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