Replace Shortcuts by Hard links/Junction points and vice versa possible ?

[Steven Prasil]

As far as I know on Windows systems exist beside the "Shortcuts" also so called
hard links resp. Junction points.

So when e.g. 3 junction points exist on a system which point to the same
file then this file remains alive until at least one junction point exists
even when I delete the first, original file entry.

Is there an automatic (=one line command line command) which turns a shortcut
into such a junction link and vice versa ?

Steven

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Lets say you create a desktop shortcut named 'MyLink', then you opened a CMD
prompt to the desktop folder, and ran the command :

attrib +shr MyLink.LNK

 

[John John]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx

There are also Microsoft utilities for this, search the web site.

John