Will software such as this: http://www.elsdoerfer.info/=ntfslink work in vista? I dont have a working virtual machine to test it on atm, i find such links very useful and would love to continue using them in Vista.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CommentView....ef-fd6d5e64be99

In Vista, you can now create junction points, reparse points, and take advantage of transactional NTFS... .

In Vista they are called symlinks. The ability to create them is already included in Vista, there is no need to add anything to do whtm with. These were called 'Junctions' in previous versions of windows.

Instead of going into the long explaination, the easy way to become aquanted with the Symlink feature in Vista is to open up a command prompt and type 'Mklink /?' ,you will be presented with the necessary information for creating your own symlinks in Vista.

whats the difference between a hard and soft link?

http://www.granneman.com/techinfo/linux/th...ndhardlinks.htm

A soft link is a separate file usually a few dozen bytes that points to another file or folder. Windows has its poorly integrated soft .lnk file and Unix has a better integrated and more transparent soft link.

A hard link causes the same real file to appear in multiple places. The file system must support it which is why it can't be done in FAT32.

it appears that Mklink uses soft links by default. do soft links have better functionality in vista?

A nice Junction/Hard/Symbolic Link shell extension that I've always been partial to.
Has a walk-through and pics of what each type does as well

Link Shell Extension

One of the things i've used them for is to link to a remote directory on another server somewhere. Its just like having the remote directory as a directory on your own hard drive in explorer.

it works like a charm..
i use it to share appdata profiles for certain apps with my XP installation

ln -s