Symbolic links can only be create in the console?

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I think the new symbolic link feature is great but I still cannot find
a way to create a symbolic linked file in the Windows Explorer.
Symbolic links are only created at the command line?
 
Cat said:
I think the new symbolic link feature is great but I still cannot find
a way to create a symbolic linked file in the Windows Explorer.
Symbolic links are only created at the command line?
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Good question. Should be a way really, given how fundamental they are to
Vista.

With XP I created them using ntfslink, which I haven't tried yet with Vista,
but it may work
(try at your own risk)

http://www.elsdoerfer.info/=ntfslink

Or perhaps there's a better way built in to Vista (?)
 
Vista does not come with a graphical way to create symlinks.

Vista does have a built-in command line program, mklink, that you can use to
create symbolic links.


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- JB
Microsoft MVP - Windows Shell/User

Windows Vista Support Faq
http://www.jimmah.com/vista/
 
I knew, sooner or later, someone would provide the program name (mklink).
Thank you! Unfortunately, there is nothing I could find in the on-line help
about it. Are there references out there? I've already looked at the mklink
/? screen.

I was a fan of links in Solaris, years ago...

Thanks,

-Frank
 
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