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This is great; I love how Microsoft have become so responsive to community demands and wishes. Personally, I've used mklink /d for quite some time, in particul

by sundvor 10y ago

This is great; I love how Microsoft have become so responsive to community demands and wishes. Personally, I've used mklink /d for quite some time, in particular to manage game installs. This became necessary once they started hitting the 30-50GB mark; suddenly those 500GB SSDs / NVMEs didn't feel so big anymore! (Not that I have much if any time to play anymore..)

criddell 10y ago
Do you know why you have to do it as Administrator? It seems like mklink shouldn't need special privileges.
- Dylan16807 10y ago
  The worry was Time Of Check To Time Of Use attacks, but I guess they've decided the balance has changed. Also you've always been able to make junction points without admin.
  - kodfodrasz 10y ago
    Unfortunately I cannot find the link now, but recently I have found a funny article related to these vulnurabilities: If you set up VPN on Windows 10 Mobile for some reason MS has decided to remove the option to resolve DNS at the far end of the VPN. (AFAIK this was present on WP 8.1) I have found a guide how to enable it: Create a symlink on an NTFS sd card pointing to a specific location (an ini file which is hidden in Windows 10 Mobile from you), insert the card, open the file in file browser with an editor, and change a setting.
toyg 10y ago
Mklink is also the recommended (safest and easiest) way to deploy JVM patch-releases in a lot of settings.
- sundvor 10y ago
  Interesting; will read up on that, sounds like something that could be useful elsewhere also. Just got a new preconfigured laptop which was almost full on system. Small 120gb SSD, but had a 1TB spinner. Found that there was 30GB worth of MSSQL DBs, so being lazy I simply moved the files to D and symlinked the directory. The only gotcha was making sure MSSQL had permissions to the new target folder.

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This is great; I love how Microsoft have become so responsive to community demands and wishes. Personally, I've used mklink /d for quite some time, in particul

by sundvor 10y ago

criddell 10y ago
Do you know why you have to do it as Administrator? It seems like mklink shouldn't need special privileges.
- Dylan16807 10y ago
  The worry was Time Of Check To Time Of Use attacks, but I guess they've decided the balance has changed. Also you've always been able to make junction points without admin.
  - kodfodrasz 10y ago
    Unfortunately I cannot find the link now, but recently I have found a funny article related to these vulnurabilities: If you set up VPN on Windows 10 Mobile for some reason MS has decided to remove the option to resolve DNS at the far end of the VPN. (AFAIK this was present on WP 8.1) I have found a guide how to enable it: Create a symlink on an NTFS sd card pointing to a specific location (an ini file which is hidden in Windows 10 Mobile from you), insert the card, open the file in file browser with an editor, and change a setting.
toyg 10y ago
Mklink is also the recommended (safest and easiest) way to deploy JVM patch-releases in a lot of settings.
- sundvor 10y ago
  Interesting; will read up on that, sounds like something that could be useful elsewhere also. Just got a new preconfigured laptop which was almost full on system. Small 120gb SSD, but had a 1TB spinner. Found that there was 30GB worth of MSSQL DBs, so being lazy I simply moved the files to D and symlinked the directory. The only gotcha was making sure MSSQL had permissions to the new target folder.