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    Windows 11 'inetpub' Folder Security Flaw: Protect Your System Now

    Here is a summary of the original Petri article on the Windows 11 'inetpub' folder security risk: What happened? After the April 2025 Patch Tuesday update, a new "inetpub" folder started appearing on Windows 10 and 11 machines. Microsoft created this folder to help patch a bug (CVE-2025-21204)...
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    Microsoft’s inetpub Folder Vulnerability: How a Quick Fix Became a Security Flaw

    Microsoft’s Mystery inetpub Folder: When the Fix Becomes a Flaw At the heart of the latest chapter in Windows patching is a familiar folder with an unfamiliar twist—c:\inetpub. The recent kerfuffle that has swept Windows administrators into a maelstrom of head-scratching and risk analysis...
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    The Mysterious inetpub Folder and CVE-2025-21204: Navigating Windows' Latest Security Challenge

    Windows users stared at their C: drives in dismay after April 2025’s Patch Tuesday, only to find a mysterious, empty new folder named “inetpub” lurking at the root of their systems—like some digital tumbleweed blown in by a particularly secretive Microsoft update. The Folder That Raised...
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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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    • Forum: Windows Software
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    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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    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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    Windows 7 Is there a way to create symlinks?

    Is there a way to create symlinks in Windows 7? I've got several external hard drives for Media, etc and all and I want to symlink them to the folders in my user's folder. Is there a way to do that? For those who don't know what symlinks are, it's a linux thing, just hoping there's a similar...
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