symbolic links

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...

The Inetpub Folder Mystery: Why You Should Never Delete It and How to Restore It Windows users, especially those who aren’t familiar with system internals, might have been puzzled or annoyed by the sudden appearance of the inetpub folder in their system’s root drive (usually C:). It looks like...

Windows 11 continues to surprise its users. The latest April 2025 cumulative update—KB5055523—has introduced an unexpected twist: the creation of an empty "inetpub" folder in the root of the C: drive, even on systems where Internet Information Services (IIS) is not installed. While the folder’s...

Windows users, brace yourselves for another quirky twist in the Windows update saga. If you recently installed the April Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 or Windows 11, you might have noticed an unexpected guest on your system drive: a folder named "inetpub." While its name might suggest...

In an important February 2025 update, Microsoft has released Windows Server 2022 KB5051979—a patch that promises to restore lost functionality and resolve several lingering issues. Windows administrators have reason to celebrate as this update addresses problems that have disrupted operations...

Symbolic link not showing up in Navigation Pane of Windows 10. Instead of using Quick Access. How to get show up there?

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...

I need help configuring Windows 7 Backup in Windows 10 Pro x64. I know I need to manually pick the files, but I forget which to backup and which to skip. I've got Windows 10 Pro, programs, apps and newer games on my M.2 ssd. I got my older games on a 2nd ssd with symbolic link on the C: drive...

Hello everyone, I've been trying to set up central "Documents" and "Downloads" folders for the two desktops and one laptop that I have and which are chatting away to each other in a miniature Windows network (homegroup). The reason for this was that I sometimes use one PC, sometimes another, to...

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...

Even though I am a member of the Administrators group, when I try to create a symbolic link I get the message: "You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation." In Windows7 I am also a member of Administrators and have no problem creating symbolic links. Does anybody have any...

I haven't done any programming for a long time, and virtually haven't done any Windows scripting since the days of MS-DOS. For my digital audio needs I am planning to separate my music collection into 3 folder trees: - lossless albums - lossy albums inclusive - lossy albums exclusive. The...

Have you ever lost ALL of your saved game data because something terrible happened? Well, recently, we have seen advancements solving this problem with the likes of Steam Cloud. Steam Cloud allows gamers, who are increasingly using Steam Powered games, to automatically store their saves online...

Fixes an issue in which you cannot access content through a symbolic link on an NFS share. This issue occurs when the NFS share is accessed by using a DFS path in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

On almost every version of the "Microsoft Lifecam" web camera, there is a call button on the device. The device is usually very small, and upon hitting the call button, you will have a program launched over and over again, in quite an annoying fashion, which can never be closed, called...

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"...