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| Thread ID: 51681 | 2004-11-27 06:01:00 | Files named with blue txt....what are they?? | Codex (3761) | Press F1 |
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| 296855 | 2004-11-27 06:01:00 | In windows xp Pro i often see files that instead of having the standard black labelling/file naming its a blue colour. What does this mean?? | Codex (3761) | ||
| 296856 | 2004-11-27 06:06:00 | I think from memory it's to do with having your files compressed. If you go into the drive properties there is an option to compress contents to save space. The blue txt indicates that the files have been compressed. I think thats right:) |
4bes (2848) | ||
| 296857 | 2004-11-27 06:08:00 | These are just files which Windows has compressed. Disk Cleanup has the ability to compress old files to save space. | Jen C (20) | ||
| 296858 | 2004-11-27 06:29:00 | but its done it to photoshop.exe which i use bout 6 times everyday | Codex (3761) | ||
| 296859 | 2004-11-27 08:31:00 | windows compresses theses and when you are using it, windows decompresses the file and compresses it again when you finish, very little performance loss when you open it, if any | Prescott (11) | ||
| 296860 | 2004-11-27 21:32:00 | I was puzzled about the blue text as well. I have not seen it until about a week ago. I wonder why it has suddenly decided to compress some files after being a going concern for some years without doing anything like this before... ? There is still 21Gb free space on the disk that is showing the blue file names, so it can't have compressed files because it was running out of space. BTW, nice typo Prescott "windows compresses theses..." No theses on my computer! ;-) |
John H (8) | ||
| 296861 | 2004-11-27 23:35:00 | >BTW, nice typo Prescott "windows compresses theses . . . " No theses on my >computer! :p, edit: these :D oh well |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 296862 | 2004-11-28 01:59:00 | I've used a DOS programme which would compress programme files, and add a little "self-extractor" header so they would be decompressed when called . This was to save disk space . . . but with small and slow disks, it could actually speed up the loading . ;-) Maybe MS are doing this . |
Graham L (2) | ||
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