I just did defrag and now some text is blue in Windows Explorer/My Computer

[Xenogear900]

I just did defrag, and now the text in some of the filenames (in Windows Explorer or My Computer) is blue, instead of black. How do I fix this and make it all black again?

I've attached a jpeg screen shot so you can see what I'm looking at.

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[Bjs]

Windows Explorer, Tools > Folder Options > View > Advanced
settings: Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color.

Its idiot xp trying to save space during defrag process ... compresses files / folders not used in sometime .

[Krispy Kritter]

And regardless of the color, the files are still there and usable.

[Heywould3]

yeah as they said all teh blue files are compressed.. but you can tell it not to compress them when you went to defrag it asked you if you wanted to compress old or unused files. it will not hurt the files.. but if you have a large amount of them and you actually do use them it will slow your computer down a bit because it has to uncompress them to access/modify then recompress them. only a slight differnce.

Sounds like you need to do some house cleaning..

XP also compresses install/uninstall and updates by itself.