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  1. April 2025 Windows Update: Why is the Empty 'inetpub' Folder on My C: Drive?

    Windows updates continue to keep IT professionals and enthusiasts on their toes. The latest April 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5055523) and Windows 10 (KB5055518) has introduced a curious new quirk: an empty “inetpub” folder appearing in the root of the C: drive, even on systems...
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    • Forum: Windows News

  2. Windows April 2025 Update Reveals 'inetpub' Folder and New Security Risks

    Microsoft’s recent Windows update released in April 2025 has introduced an unexpected and somewhat controversial element to the Windows file system: an empty folder named "inetpub" appearing on many user systems. This update, part of Windows 11 24H2 and Windows 10 cumulative patches (notably...
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    • cve-2025-21204 directory hijacking directory junctions file security iis inetpub folder it administration it security news microsoft patch mklink patch management security security alert security best practices security patch security researcher security updates symlink exploits system administration system files system folder security update risks vulnerability windows 10 windows 11 windows 2025 windows activation windows security windows update windows vulnerabilities
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    • Forum: Windows News
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    Copying symlinks to another win10 PC with another drive-letter and folder structure

    Hi, I'm using two win10 PCs (a Pro and a Home). I just built some symlinks in different folders to a target folder mp4 files. Now I have some time to copy these symlinks to my Notebook without having to build all of the symlinks again. That means that the target, which is visible on any of the...
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    • drive letter file access file copy file management folders mklink symlinks target folder windows 10 windows recovery
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    • Forum: Windows Software

  4. Symlinks in Windows 10!

    Overview Symlinks, or symbolic links, are “virtual” files or folders which reference a physical file or folder located elsewhere, and are an important feature built in to many operating systems, including Linux and Windows. The Windows’ NTFS file system has supported symlinks since Windows...
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  5. Windows 10 How To: Relocate User Profiles to Different Drive/Partition (SSD Friendly)

    For those of you who have SSDs, limited space, or just want to keep your user data on another drive or partition, I wanted to share the results of some experimentation as a followup to my own question on this subject. I know that there is another method of relocating the User Profiles to...
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    • backup command prompt data management file management installation media junction points migration mirroring mklink partition registry robocopy ssd system restore system update tech tips troubleshooting windows 8
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 symbolic link to a folder not working

    I attempted to create a soft symbolic link to a folder, but the link is not working. In Explorer, the "keybrd_lib" link does not look like a folder (screen shot below). When the link is double clicked, an "Open with" dialog opens. Here is how I made the symlink from the command line, run as...
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    • ardunio command line directory error explorer file system folders invalid directory keyboard keybrd link issues mklink path project development soft link symbolic links troubleshooting user issues windows 7
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 See More Files And Folders On Another Network Computer

    If you have two machines that both are at least Windows Vista, follow these steps: 1. Connect the two computers so that they are seen on the network 2. Open a command prompt 3. Type: mklink /d /j C:\Users\(Name) C:\ *Replace (Name) with whatever you want and substitute the second C...
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    • command prompt file access file explorer file sharing mklink network network tip user folder windows vista
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    • Forum: Windows Networking
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    Windows 7 Symbolic links not showing in explorer

    Running Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit. Two disks in computer (lenovo laptop) second disk (D) is dynamic. We create symlinks using mlink. We create links on D:\. An example is: mklink /D "S:\DriverAPI.Duplex" "%GBROOT%\DriverAPI\Duplex\bin\main\debug" and mklink /D "T:\DriverAPI.JTalk"...
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    • administrator drive dynamic disk explorer file system file visibility lenovo mklink symbolic links windows 7
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  9. Windows 7 NFS, Mapped Drives, MKLINK, UAC...

    I'm trying to set up a development environment at work. I'm the only one using Windows. Others have the environment set up on Linux and Mac. I'm hoping this is possible but I'm stuck on one particular issue that is driving me crazy! I need to connect to a shared network drive via NFS. I...
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    • access issues administrator development error file sharing home office jungle disk local security mapped drives mklink network drive nfs permissions privilege symlinks troubleshooting uac windows 7 windows settings
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Changing the user space to an other partition

    I've writen some scripts to change the C:\user to an other partition. all seems to work but I can not change the security on the SYMBLINK and Junctions (not the directories) assuming all in c:\users\%USERNAME% is machine independent ... All data will be recreated at first login anyhow...
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    • directory environment variables junctions mklink partition permissions registry roaming robocopy script execution scripting security symlinks system admin user folder user space windows 7 workgroup xcacls
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Programming and Scripting