Change the Colour of Compressed files and Folders

Windows uses a special colour to identify compressed files in Explorer. By default, this is blue. You can set this to any colour of your choice.

Go to My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > View. Scroll down to “Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color”; check the box and click ok.

Then open Registry Editor. Navigate to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer.

Create a new binary value, or modify the existing value, called AltColor and set it to equal the hexadecimal RGB colour value for files and folders:
Value Name : AltColor
Data Type : REG_BINARY (Binary Value)
Value Data : 0000FF (Default)

Since we need to set the colour to red, we need to use a Value Data of FF0000. For other colours. The values are as follows:

Green: 00FF00
Blue: ooooFF (Default)
Yellow: FFFF00
White: FFFFFF
Black: 000000
Brown: A52A2A