the + sign in windows explorer

[Kimm]

Hey, Just wondering why my network neighborhood has a plus + sing beside it (as if there are subfolders) but when I click on it, it disappears and returns everytime I open explorer? Win98Se THanks

[Nick]

I guessimated an answer to this in here ages ago. I think that M$ didn't bother to 'expand' the network chain until the user wants - this saves a lot of time, especially on a big network (imagine on boot the machine 'mapping' all the machines!).

So the cross is there by default, until you look... then it will look!

Nick

[RWSchlatter]

This Plus is shown by the Treeview component that cannot determine in advance if there are folder-like things / directories at the next lower hierarchy level.
You will see this at many different places and it is very annoying, J often click on this Plus and wish to see the tree expand, but just the plus disappears. One reason of course is, as Nick mentioned, that to determine the true contents in advance, could be very time consuming. The treeview component cannot know by itself what it represents, but it is up the the components host to decide on the initial information.

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Regards - Richard

[Kimm]

Hey Richard, thanks alot and thanks to Nick too!