Why does text appear green in explorer?

[baker]

There is a folder on an XP laptop here at work, that is
unable to open any of the word documents contained in a
created folder in "my documents".

The odd thing about it is that the text (when viewing in
explorer/my computer) appears green instead of black.

It states either the file is read only, or the path is
invalid, even though the path exists, and I have checked
all the permissions.

Does anyone know why the text in explorer would appear
green?

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated,

thanks,


Baker

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

baker wrote:

> There is a folder on an XP laptop here at work, that is
> unable to open any of the word documents contained in a
> created folder in "my documents".
>
> The odd thing about it is that the text (when viewing in
> explorer/my computer) appears green instead of black.
>
> It states either the file is read only, or the path is
> invalid, even though the path exists, and I have checked
> all the permissions.
>
> Does anyone know why the text in explorer would appear
> green?

Hi

It indicates that the files are encrypted with Microsoft's Encrypting File
System (EFS)


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;223316

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/techinfo/administration/recovery/default.asp

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torgeir
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