Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Call me crazy but one of the first thing I run after installing Vista on a box is...

mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Contacts "%USERPROFILE%\Contacts"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Desktop "%USERPROFILE%\Desktop"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Documents "%USERPROFILE%\Documents"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Downloads "%USERPROFILE%\Downloads"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Tools "%USERPROFILE%\Downloads\Tools"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Favorites "%USERPROFILE%\Favorites"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Music "%USERPROFILE%\Music"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Pictures "%USERPROFILE%\Pictures"
mklink /J "%SystemDrive%\Saved Games" "%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Searches "%USERPROFILE%\Searches"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Videos "%USERPROFILE%\Videos"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\Projects "%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects"
mklink /J %SystemDrive%\SDK "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\"

I wish PowerShell would have such a command and not force me to "cmd /k mklink"...

Published Saturday, November 25, 2006 10:52 PM by yvesdolc
Filed under:

Comments

# re: Call me crazy but one of the first thing I run after installing Vista on a box is...

Sunday, November 26, 2006 2:46 AM by rgregg

Doesn't this just clutter your root drive with extra folders?

# re: Call me crazy but one of the first thing I run after installing Vista on a box is...

Sunday, November 26, 2006 3:00 AM by yvesdolc

Yes Ryan (I guess) but it makes them so much easier to specify with the keyboard in PowerShell, CMD, the Open/Save dialog,...

I'm crazy AND lazy! ;-)

# Symbolics links in Vista

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:11 PM by Simon Thorneycroft and Jonathan Hodgson

A new but low-level addition to Vista is the support for symbolic links in the file system. These are...

Anonymous comments are disabled
 
Page view tracker