
What are Symbolic Links? Windows 10, 8, 7, and Vista all support symbolic links, also known as symlinks, that point to a file or folder on your system. Symbolic links are basically advanced shortcuts. Create a symbolic link to an individual file or folder, and that link will appear to be the same as the file or folder to Windows—even though it’s just a link pointing at the file or folder. For example, let’s say you have a program that needs its files at C:\Program. You’d really like to … [Read more...]