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

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

Don Clugston wrote:

> 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

Back when I used Windows I used this shell extension which allows you to
manage links and junctions from explorer, and it changes the icons. Very
handy!

-Tomas