Files in Blue Font.... Why are they in blue font?

posted by  johnb (88)  15 months ago (www.vistax64.com)

> I noticed that the files in my E: drive are in blue font... What is the
> significance of the blue font?

Hi Mac,

This indicates the files are compressed using NTFS Compression.

You can compress indiviual files, or you can specify Compression for a whole
volume in Disk Manager (under Admin Tools). If everything on the drive is
compressed, it probabaly means the whole Volume is compressed. That's okay -
just means you get more disk space. NTFS compression is very efficient, in
the performance di