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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2006-02-05
The idea behind a symlink is that it points to another file. The idea behind a hardlink is that it is another handle on the file, no different then the first handle on it, just stored in a different logical place.
just google it and you will probably find a billion links to clearer and more succinct explinations than mine ;-)
symlinks are a better idea 99% of the time. when i read that ms was implmenting hard links my first thought was "why?". my guess is that winsxs is one of the only reasons they exist on the platform.
Edited 2008-11-22 20:28 UTC