Symlinks or Symbolic Links are symbolic link ( also known as a soft link) consists of a special type of file that serves as a reference to another file or directory. This feature is availble finally in Windows Vista. You can create symlinks using the windows vista command line utility termed as “MKLINK”. Dont Miss New article written on Vista Tricks and Performance ( Click to read)

Syntax for Symlink in Vista

MKLINK [ /D] | [/H] | [/J] Link Target

where [] stands for optional and / is used as option

• /D - Create a directory symbolic link ( soft link ). Default is file symbolic link.
• /H - Creates a Hard link ( link to a file ) .
• /J - Creates a directory junction
• LINK - Specifies a new symbolic link name
• Target - Specifies the path that the new link will refer to.

Example of Creating a symbolic link to directory

On command prompt, first navigate to the directory you want. Then ( Here I am at C directory )

• C:\ > mklink /D mySymDir D:\MyBlogData

The above example makes all the data in “C” directory available in D:\Myblogdata. Juts make a Dir in DMyblogdata and You will see all the files of C directory. You can also read how to make data of two directory availble ito one using symlink in vista. This can help you out to see data in one folder

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