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faragon on July 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The trouble with symbolic links

You could create symlinks since Windows Vista without permission elevation, if having disabled the UAC ("User Account Control").

ziml77 on July 22, 2022 [–]

Disabling UAC meant there was nowhere to elevate to because you just had admin rights all the time.

faragon on July 22, 2022 | [–]

You're right, thank you.

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