Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 22nd Nov 2008 17:53 UTC
One of the main problems with Windows Vista (and earlier versions) is that Windows consumes quite a lot of diskspace, with few means to trim down the installation. To make matters worse, Windows tends to accumulate a lot of megabytes and even gigabytes of space during its lifetime, leaving users at a loss as to how to reclaim this lost space. In a post on the Engineering 7 weblog, Microsoft program manager of the core OS deployment feature team (...) Michael Beck explains what Microsoft is doing in order to reduce the disk footprint of Windows 7.
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2005-07-24
Ah I see, thanks for that!
I love being corrected when I'm wrong - it's the best way to learn!
So I guess then that hardlinks are designed so that if you overwrite it, the linked file itself is overwritten, and a special procedure is needed to remove the link.
Still, Explorer & any other app should still be able to realize when the file is a link rather than the actual file.
Thanks again :-)
--The loon