blue files

[iLiKeChOwFuN]

Blue files

How do i remove them to make it go back to normal?
also i right click - properties - advance and i see all the checkboxes unchecked.

 

[rbrandon]

have you defragged lately? the defragger will comress files even if you don't compress them yourself.

 

[iLiKeChOwFuN]

how do i un compress the files then?

 

[mikecel79]

Select all the files. Right click on and choose Properties. Click on the Advanced tab and uncheck the box next to compress.

I don't think the built-in Windows Defrag utility will compress files. However if you use disk cleanup you have the option to compress files that have not been used lately.

BTW if you search for uncompressed files in the Windows Help it has all this information.

 

[iLiKeChOwFuN]

Originally posted by: mikecel79
Select all the files. Right click on and choose Properties. Click on the Advanced tab and uncheck the box next to compress.

I don't think the built-in Windows Defrag utility will compress files. However if you use disk cleanup you have the option to compress files that have not been used lately.

BTW if you search for uncompressed files in the Windows Help it has all this information.

i checked but nothing is check there

 

[bdoople]

Windows will only change the color if you set it to use a seperate color for compressed files on format. I'm not really sure what else it could be though.

 

[iLiKeChOwFuN]

turns out files are compressed.
is there a way to uncompress everything without going through all the files?

 

[rmrf]

Originally posted by: iLiKeChOwFuN
turns out files are compressed.
is there a way to uncompress everything without going through all the files?

like mikecel79 said, if you select all the files at once (CTRL+A), and right click, you will be able to uncompress the files.

 

[iLiKeChOwFuN]

theres no faster way cuz i have a lot of blue files
most of the files on my drive are blue

 

[Nothinman]

Use the compact command.

 

[iLiKeChOwFuN]

how do i do that to the whole entire c drive?

 

[Nothinman]

compact /U /S c:

Reading the output of 'compact /?' would have told you that.

 

[iLiKeChOwFuN]

after i dont that it said 0 files were uncompress
found out how i got this was by defragging my computer with diskeeper

 

[Nothinman]

But why do you care that they're compressed?

 

[iLiKeChOwFuN]

stuff loads longer
music skips
everything on my whole drive is almost compressed

 

[Nothinman]

Unless your CPU is extremely slow it shouldn't matter. Infact as long as the CPU is fast enough to decompress the files without much latency, the speed should be faster because you'll be reading from the disk less since the compressed data on disk will be smaller.

Anyway, you probably ran compact wrong, did you read it's output?. I know it works, I've used it before. Add the /A and /I switched just incase it skipped hidden files and/or stopped when it had an error decompressing a file like pagefile.sys.

 

[iLiKeChOwFuN]

i ran it like this compact /u /s /a /i c:
it says
0 files within 1135 directories were uncompressed

 

[Nothinman]

Then the logical conclusion is that they aren't compressed and they're blue for some other reason.