{"id":42303,"date":"2003-10-02T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/10\/02\/what-do-the-text-label-colors-mean-for-files\/"},"modified":"2003-10-02T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T13:59:00","slug":"what-do-the-text-label-colors-mean-for-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031002-00\/?p=42303","title":{"rendered":"What do the text label colors mean for files?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>         Blue means compressed; green means encrypted.      <\/p>\n<p>         This is an example of one of those &#8220;come on, it&#8217;s a tiny, simple feature&#8221; requests.         Yes, the code to do this isn&#8217;t particularly complicated, but it adds another element         of &#8220;Ha ha, I&#8217;m going to do something in a way that you will never be able to figure         out unless somebody tells you.&#8221;      <\/p>\n<p>         We get a lot of these little requests. If we accepted them all, you&#8217;d have icons with         so many incomprehensible decorations you&#8217;d never be able to figure out what all the         colors and markers mean.      <\/p>\n<p>         So the next time you say to yourself, &#8220;Windows should change the appearance of X if         simple condition Y,&#8221; imagine what it would be like if we actually did even twenty         of those simple things.      <\/p>\n<p>         As my last example: What does it mean if an item on your Start menu is grey?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue means compressed; green means encrypted. This is an example of one of those &#8220;come on, it&#8217;s a tiny, simple feature&#8221; requests. Yes, the code to do this isn&#8217;t particularly complicated, but it adds another element of &#8220;Ha ha, I&#8217;m going to do something in a way that you will never be able to figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-42303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Blue means compressed; green means encrypted. This is an example of one of those &#8220;come on, it&#8217;s a tiny, simple feature&#8221; requests. Yes, the code to do this isn&#8217;t particularly complicated, but it adds another element of &#8220;Ha ha, I&#8217;m going to do something in a way that you will never be able to figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}