http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andrew_kelly/archive/2007/08/21/junctions-in-windows.aspxI had known for a while that as of Windows 2000 there was a way to create what I called a Drive Shortcut but I never could find the documentation on how to actually do it. It turns out this was included in the resource kit which is probably why i neverenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andrew_kelly/archive/2007/08/21/junctions-in-windows.aspx#2273Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:28:20 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:2273jake ballard<p>Vista has a utility called mklink for creating hard links, symbolic links, and junctions built in. mklink /? for usage.</p> http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andrew_kelly/archive/2007/08/21/junctions-in-windows.aspx#2274Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:47:01 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:2274Andrew Kelly<p>Thanks, that is good to know.</p> http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andrew_kelly/archive/2007/08/21/junctions-in-windows.aspx#2276Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:10:12 GMT21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:2276jake ballard<p>Vista actually uses a lot of junctions to maintain backward compatibility for some of the renamed folders. For example if you 'dir /a:HD' on C: you will see that there still is a hidden &quot;documents and settings&quot; folder that is a junction to C:\users. There are a lot in the individual profiles themselves also.</p>