Local Disk (C:) showing in blue type, why?

fakefurbabe · 2008-09-16 17:53:00

Hope someone can help me with this - if I right click on 'My Computer' on the Desktop and click 'Explore', my Local Disk (C:) is displayed in blue type but everything else is displayed in black. Also, when I click on Local Disk C, other folders are listed in blue type (not all, just some) and it really is started to push…

16-09-2008 06:53PM

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fakefurbabe

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Hope someone can help me with this - if I right click on 'My Computer' on the Desktop and click 'Explore', my Local Disk (C:) is displayed in blue type but everything else is displayed in black. Also, when I click on Local Disk C, other folders are listed in blue type (not all, just some) and it really is started to push me over the edge!!!!:D :eek:

Any explanation of this would be really appreciated - more importantly, can it be fixed? Thanks.

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#2 16-09-2008 06:57PM

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you have a compressed drive, you can turn off the blue text in windows or you can turn off drive compression

explained here
http://forums.techarena.in/windows-xp-support/790277.htm

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#3 16-09-2008 07:05PM

fakefurbabe

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Thanks so much - you don't know how long that has been bugging me! Cheers again You're a star.

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