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Maybe it was easier? Iirc at least in some recent ish Windows versions, by default you needed admin privileges to run mklink. Given that a shortcut is just a re

Maybe it was easier? Iirc at least in some recent ish Windows versions, by default you needed admin privileges to run mklink. Given that a shortcut is just a regular file, that solves a lot of problems.

sumtechguy 3y ago
That depends on your version of windows (newer versions are more relaxed on it). Also file links are 'weird' in windows. You have 3 types junction points, file links and directory links. Each one acting in its very weird odd way. Junction points are for local only directories. Files for files and directories can be either local dirs or remote SMB points. Junctions vs dir can be an interesting trade off on what you want it to do. With junciton being faster for many operations but local only. Also if the file is less than ~500 bytes there is no real gain as you will probably just consume MFT anyway either way.
- 8372049 3y ago
  You need SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege to create symlinks in both Win 10 and Win 11. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/create-symbolic-links https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
  - speed_spread 3y ago
    Its one of the things enabled by "dev mode" in the control panel.
    - sumtechguy 3y ago
      ah i probably enabled that...