Creating symlink for C:\Program Files

windows symbolic-link

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Yes, Done this with 2 computers.

mklink /j Link Target

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th3falc0n

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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th3falc0n almost 2 years

Is it possible to create a symbolic link in Windows that redirects C:\Program Files to another drive?
- gronostaj over 10 years
  
  Googling tells me that a NTFS junction should work, but I haven't tested it myself.
th3falc0n over 10 years

How did you do this? I can't rename C:/Program Files and JunctionMaster tells me it is unable to reloacte C:/Program Files
cybernard over 10 years

@th3falc0n You have to use a bootable DVD preferable the Windows 7 install DVD.(msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-24394.iso) Select Repair then Command Prompt. rename "Program Files" x then mklink /j "c:\Program Files" "d:\program files" Now use xcopy /h /e /c c:\x*.* "d:\Program Files\"
v.oddou over 9 years

.net framework installer detects that the relocation is on a different partition and refuses to install. it works for installer that do not want to be overly zealous about paranoid about checking everything and trying to be super-aware of stuff it doesn't have to be. (hint: this is what a bloated microsoft installer does)