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C:/ drive showing in blue
Name: tania7424 Date: October 8, 2005 at 00:22:15 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 2500+, 512MB
Comment:
When I go into My Computer, why is my C: drive showing in blue, along with some of the files?
Name: Ed in Texas. Date: October 8, 2005 at 00:44:51 Pacific
Reply:
tania7424, SWAG, indicating active drive? HTH. Ed in Texas.
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Response Number 2
Name: simonscholey Date: October 8, 2005 at 01:05:41 Pacific
Reply:
it means its compressed. you wanna change that otherwise you'll get a huge performance decrease! right click C: and choose properties, then untick compress drive to save space and apply it to all files and subfolders.
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