The NTFS filesystem of NT4/W2K/WXP/WXP64 supports HardLink functionality, but HardLinks can only be created via the POSIX command ln, which is shipped with the Windows resourcekit. Even if with POSIX commands, HardLinks can only be created via the command prompt, which is a kind of a mess for many files.
The Link Shell Extension is a free and useful utility that can implement an extension to the Windows shell explorer, so that HardLinks, Junctions, and SymbolicLinks can be comfortably created via right mouse click on a selection of one or multiple files.
What's New in This Release:
· For Junctions or Symbolic Links the Target field can be edited in the Properties Dialog.
· LSE elevates the creation of hardlinks in system protected directories, e.g.: %systemroot%.
· LSE now offers all its function also in the Library folder.
· If enabled LSE summarizes the ouptut of operations in a log file.
· Fixed a crash related to UNC path and Overlay Icons.
· The progress bar showed wrong/incomplete filename-path combinations during operations on large files.
· Symbolic links to mapped network drives can be created now via LSE.
· Replacement functions can used to repair broken junctions/symbolic links/mountpoints.