Sunday, 27 July 2008

What's on my C: drive in VISTA??!!

C:\>dir grep -v DIR

gives a listing of all the files (extensions: bat, log, sts, exe, iss (InstallShield Silent Response file), ini, txt).

The exe is junction.exe from sysinternals, a "Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer". A junction is a directory symlink in Windows, aka NTFS "junction". Reparse points are the means by which Windows symlinks are implemented.

If you do dir/a you will see all the JUNCTIONs as well as DIRs!! In my system, C:\Documents and Settings is a JUNCTION pointing to C:\Users.

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