RED text in windows explorer - help pls!

g'day guys, i hope someone can help because i can't find info. on this anywhere! not ms, google or other fori...

i recently installed a friend's hd, which is dual-boot win98se & xp but all on one fat32 partition, to just take his personal files (doc.s etc.) off for later use elsewhere.

his boots ok on its own, & now as E:, under my 98se hds C: & D:, reads ok, haven't tried writing yet because: .....

.....windows explorer (running from my hd's windows) shows his hd's files & folders in red text !

woh... just double checking... yep! C:&D: 's contents still show in black, but E:'s are in red...both for "Open"(1 panel) & in the right-hand-panel of "Explore"(2 panels).

if u check-out the attached picture there's desktop.ini & a tip-balloon over one of the .doc files, which doesn't happen over any others there, dunno if this is 3rd-party 'ware getting in the way...

when i navigate INTO the folders the view reverts to normal black, weird!

what does this mean? i've never seen it b4 & don't want to proceed til more info. ...
windows appearance colours ok, msie colours ok, just wexplore...

i have to get my friends pc organised soon for him,
help anyone please help !!!

att.: eee.jpg

 

With the introduction of the Active Desktop, and new feature "Customized Folders"/ "Webview"/"Web Content" also arrived.

It makes it possible to give each folder their own special look depending on their contents (MP3, Pictures, Movies, Letters, etc.).

My guess is that the folder with the red text has been customized. To disable this custom look, just renamed the file desktop.ini to desktop.old (Resides in the customized folder)

More Info Change Webview for a folder

 

MYSTERY SOLVED !

G'day Guys, Case Closed !
u can consider this thread not urgent anymore folks, problem solved:

THANKS SNAKEFOOT U'VE SOLVED THE MYSTERY, your tip worked fine & is reversible

thanks so much!
c ya!

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