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706699 2008-09-21 03:15:00 Hi All,

Just noticed that on my seperate external hard drive (Seagate freeagent) some of the file names are colored blue!? Not Black!
Anyone how to change this back to black??
mark1978 (13845)
706700 2008-09-21 03:20:00 Try going to My Computer>Tools>Folder Options>View and untick the 3rd to last checkbox jwil1 (65)
706701 2008-09-21 03:24:00 That says "Show Control panel in My Computer"? Correct? mark1978 (13845)
706702 2008-09-21 03:33:00 Untick 'Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in colour' :) jwil1 (65)
706703 2008-09-21 03:36:00 CLASSIC!! Thank You!! :-)) mark1978 (13845)
706704 2008-09-22 05:01:00 If you have compressed the contents of your HDD, un-compress it.

It slows everything down horribly, because any time you have to access an oldish file, which is most of the stuff on the PC, windows has to un compress it.
wratterus (105)
706705 2008-09-24 06:40:00 [QUOTE=wratterus;712943]If you have compressed the contents of your HDD, un-compress it.


Would you post how to do this. (Windows XP) Thanks.
bellbird (6169)
706706 2008-09-24 06:56:00 I think its this-right click drive>properties>untick "Compress drive to save disk space". Can take up to 10 minutes with a big drive.

Cheers
blam
Blam (54)
706707 2008-09-24 09:54:00 I think its this-right click drive>properties>untick "Compress drive to save disk space". Can take up to 10 minutes with a big drive.

Cheers
blam

That's it. Try 10 hours for a big drive though. What's your definition of a big drive though? :p
wratterus (105)
706708 2008-09-24 09:55:00 I think its this-right click drive>properties>untick "Compress drive to save disk space". Can take up to 10 minutes with a big drive.

Cheers
blam

That's it. Try 10 hours for a big drive though. Actually, what is your definition of a big drive? :p
wratterus (105)
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