Junction Link Magic automatically lists existing junction points, and it offers an easy interface to add, modify or remove junction points.

Junction Link Magic is freeware.

DISCLAIMER: FOR EXPERIENCED USERS ONLY!

Acknowledgement: parts of the Junction Link Magic code are courtesy of:

• Mike Nordell
• Jeff Brown
• Dave Midgley

Note: if you just want to link a file instead of a folder, this is called a hard link. Take a look at Hermann Schinagl's free program Hard Link Shell Extension.

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A junction point is a special type of reparse point. Reparse points are redirections in the Windows file system. There are 3 types of reparse points:

1. Symbolic links - can be thought of as a shortcut to a file or folder elsewhere in the file system
2. Junction points - can only point to a folder
3. Mount points - is a folder on a disk that points to an entire disk volume

Junction Link Magic will list all 3 types, not only junction links. With Junction Link Magic, you can also create and remove junction links.

A junction point is a technology for a folder to be grafted into another folder on the same local computer.

This might not seem like a big deal, but it can remove a lot of clutter. It also helps a lot when moving programs from one place to another, since just about every program in the Windows world expects to never be moved from the directory it was installed in.

E.g. moving your "Program Files" directory contents to another drive, and linking the original "Program Files" directory to this new location.

With junction points you can also surpass the 26 drive letter limitation.

Junction points are transparent to programs.

Starting with Windows Vista, junction points are used extensively in the Windows operating system. Several of the special folders in Windows, such as the "Documents and Settings" folder, are shown as shortcuts to other folders, but are actually junction points.

Unfortunately, Windows comes with almost no tools for creating junctions.
Prior to Windows Vista, you had to purchase the Windows Resource Kit, which offers the LINKD program for creating junctions.
In Vista, there is the MKLINK utility for the command line, which is not easy to use.
So that's where Junction Link Magic comes in...

Junction points can only be created on volumes formatted with NTFS 5.0 or higher. NTFS 5.0 is supported in Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and higher.