?File names have changed color?

[Ghidrah]

Did some writing and surfing I shut down. Next morning opened folder and noticed that "SOME", not all of the file names had changed color, to blue. So I went in to all the folders I could find and the same thing some were blue the rest were default black.

Some folders all the file names were blue

I ran Adaware, Webroot Spybot and a full comp scan from Norton, no bugs.

I tried looking for help in the Windows "Help and Support" but couldn't find anything related to changing File name color.

What the heck could cause this?

I swear the oddest junk happens to my pile.

[shadowpr]

Go to display > Advanced settings, and see if they have anything in there about colors of file names.

Found this with google: in windows explorer

go to tools>folder options> view and deselect (show encrypted or copressed NTFS files in color)

[Ghidrah]

Thanks big time shadowpr it worked, all file names are back to black.

I did notice that all the Windows folder ($NtUninstall) files are now black, however they were always blue.

I'm not talking sys files, but files I created myself, (games guides I've writen) currently working on one (it stayed black) but half the others went blue.

I even went as far as to do a restore 2 days before, no change.

What doesn't make sense to me is why some file names just switched to blue, (on their own accord) and some not.

[glc]

That will happen when you run Windows Disk Cleanup. Default settings are to compress files that have not been accessed in the last (90 days?). I never run it, I use CCleaner to do my cleanups.

[Ghidrah]

That explains it then earlier in the evening I cleaned house, scanning and defragging. Although, I've done this maybe 6 or 7 times since last August (Franky 4) and this was the 1st time that's happened. It never happened on earlier builds either