In "My Computer" A MAPPED drive's text is blue Win XP

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Hi,

I have several mapped drives in "My Computer" approx 6, One of the drives
"G" The text is blue that dicscribes where the drive is mapped to, the rest
are black. I am using Windows XP Pro SP2. Does someone know why this is.

tia
Bert

 

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"Bert" <winloxp@btopenworld.com> wrote:

>I have several mapped drives in "My Computer" approx 6, One of the drives
>"G" The text is blue that dicscribes where the drive is mapped to, the rest
>are black. I am using Windows XP Pro SP2. Does someone know why this is.

Blue file and folder names indicate that this data is compressed. See
"How to Use File Compression in Windows XP"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307987).

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Great stuff, thanks for your help and link

Bert

"Bert" <winloxp@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have several mapped drives in "My Computer" approx 6, One of the drives
> "G" The text is blue that dicscribes where the drive is mapped to, the
> rest are black. I am using Windows XP Pro SP2. Does someone know why this
> is.
>
> tia
> Bert
>