Swimming_Bird Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 Will software such as this: http://www.elsdoerfer.info/=ntfslink work in vista? I dont have a working virtual machine to test it on atm, i find such links very useful and would love to continue using them in Vista.
cluberti Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CommentView....ef-fd6d5e64be99
cluberti Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 In Vista, you can now create junction points, reparse points, and take advantage of transactional NTFS... .
Spooky Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 (edited) In Vista they are called symlinks. The ability to create them is already included in Vista, there is no need to add anything to do whtm with. These were called 'Junctions' in previous versions of windows.Instead of going into the long explaination, the easy way to become aquanted with the Symlink feature in Vista is to open up a command prompt and type 'Mklink /?' ,you will be presented with the necessary information for creating your own symlinks in Vista. Edited January 14, 2007 by Spooky
Swimming_Bird Posted January 14, 2007 Author Posted January 14, 2007 whats the difference between a hard and soft link?
severach Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 http://www.granneman.com/techinfo/linux/th...ndhardlinks.htmA soft link is a separate file usually a few dozen bytes that points to another file or folder. Windows has its poorly integrated soft .lnk file and Unix has a better integrated and more transparent soft link. A hard link causes the same real file to appear in multiple places. The file system must support it which is why it can't be done in FAT32.
Swimming_Bird Posted January 14, 2007 Author Posted January 14, 2007 it appears that Mklink uses soft links by default. do soft links have better functionality in vista?
LiquidSage Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 A nice Junction/Hard/Symbolic Link shell extension that I've always been partial to.Has a walk-through and pics of what each type does as wellLink Shell Extension
Spooky Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 One of the things i've used them for is to link to a remote directory on another server somewhere. Its just like having the remote directory as a directory on your own hard drive in explorer.
dAbReAkA Posted January 16, 2007 Posted January 16, 2007 it works like a charm..i use it to share appdata profiles for certain apps with my XP installation
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