Thanks to Microsoft providing APIs, but not providing any utility-level support (such as Unix's 'ln' command,) few people today are aware of the fact that Windows provides file system level support for both POSIX compliant hard links for files as well as Microsoft's own form of symbolic links through shell links and (on NTFS 5 or higher,) junction points for directories. Instead, they've offered to hype their own shortcuts (which are nothing more than a generic, meaningless ...