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The plus and minus signs indicate that you can expand or collapse that particular path location (i.e. drive or folder) to show or hide additional sub-sections of the path of a particular file. For example, click on the plus sign on the My Computer icon to expand and see all the drives that incorporate My Computer or click on the minus sign of a folder to hide the sub-folders that exist for that folder.

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The plus and minus signs to the left of directory names in Windows Explorer indicate if the directory (or object) contains sub-directories (or sub-objects). The plus sign indicates that sub objects exist but are not shown, while the minus sign indicates that sub objects exist and are shown. Clicking on the plus or minus sign reverses the displayed state of the object.

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