Thursday, February 11, 2010

Proper Symlinks in Vista+Win7 - who knew?

Well f'ing hell nobody told me that Windows had Got With The Program and introduced proper, real, honest-to-goodness Symlinks in NTFS nowadays.

use dos command: (console must be 'run as administrator', right-click that option when opening dos box or you get an error)

mklink

Works great; can symlink your shit all over the place, between drives, etc.


Yay!

I have to say that Win7 seems pretty good so far. Mind you, I had no great issues with Vista, apart from them removing 'telnet' ;-p

Note: mklink is somewhat braindead of course; you have to add \d if you want a link to a directory (why? can't it tell?), otherwise it simply creates you a link that.. doesn't do anything. Splendid work there ;-)

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