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I recently cleaned my computer up a bit by using CCleaner, windows disk cleanup, and windows disk defragmenter. All is working well but now many of my files, not all, have blue fonts and I was just really curious as to why? Is there any cause for concern? If I want, how can I change the color so all is uniform black?
Disk Cleanup Wizard compressed them to save disk space.
Do people really need to risk making files unreadable to save a few megs of space in the era of $99 2TB drives?
I am a big fan of NTFS compression. It makes reads and writes faster due to less bytes having to be read/written to the slow drive. This is at the cost of a few CPU cycles, but those are almost always abundant.
Although, I have never had the issue of a file becoming unreadable due to NTFS compression, I don't see it being a big concern at all. Worst case is that it doesn't pass CRC and has to be restored from backups. Takes a few minutes at most.
I am a big fan of NTFS compression. It makes reads and writes faster due to less bytes having to be read/written to the slow drive. This is at the cost of a few CPU cycles, but those are almost always abundant.
Although, I have never had the issue of a file becoming unreadable due to NTFS compression, I don't see it being a big concern at all. Worst case is that it doesn't pass CRC and has to be restored from backups. Takes a few minutes at most.
The thing is, everything, blue font and the black font files are all working fine. All are completely readable. I was just wondering which program changed them. It's not the end of the world if the fonts remain blue, if I can't restore the black color I can live with that.
Disk Cleanup Wizard compressed them to save disk space.
Do people really need to risk making files unreadable to save a few megs of space in the era of $99 2TB drives?
There are other benefits, and I'm generally pro-compression.
I think a more relevant question should be "Do people still not realize that you should have a proper backup solution in place so that you don't have to worry about the risk of making files unreadable?"
Acronis is dirt-cheap, coming in at about 50 bucks. Heck, if you are OK with being a bit evil, it's free.
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