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Symlinks, variously called junctions, hardpoints and whatever else, exist on Windows. On Linux, it is simply ln.

These are my notes for Windows 10.

Note that if you want to do any of this in a .cmd file, then you will need to elevate permissions. See Running a batch file as administrator on Windows 10.



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The network connection status icon, found at the lower-right of the taskbar (the tray), is a privacy flaw.

This is because in order for it to operate, it has to reach out to check. Its first check will be its internal IP, to your router. Its second check is to ping a Microsoft server. This means every time your computer boots up, or wakes up, it's informing..

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First, an advertisement to Windows 10 got baked into Windows 8.1, probably via its update service. Sigh.

It appeared as a tray icon.

The resulting window, which doesn't tell me nearly enough, has "Learn more on windows.com" at its top-right.

That leads to

www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade?ocid=win10_auxapp_LearnMore_win10

.. which does not exist. [ 1 ] what I saw · what I should have seen