What I do to easily switch between different DMD versions and libraries on Windows

[Don Clugston]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> 
> Henning Hasemann wrote:
>> "Anders Bergh" <anders1 at gmail.com> schrieb (Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:45:30
>> +0200):
>>
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Junction.mspx
>>> This tool lets you create directory symlinks (NTFS junctions).
>> Cool I didnt know Windows has "already" something that comes close to
>> "real" symlinks.
>>
>> Henning
> 
> They aren't.  You need to be very careful with junctions.  Firstly, if
> you delete a junction directly, you will delete the original folder as
> well!  To make this worse, there is no way to tell from explorer if a
> folder is a junction or not.

A solution to this would be to change the icon while making the junction.
Anyone changed a folder icon before? Probably just an API call to set file 
attributes.

> Anders' trick is still cool, but just be very careful with it.  MS
> didn't write a tool to create junctions for a very good reason :)
> 
> 	-- Daniel