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in thread Creating shortcuts

I'd never heard of this facility and thought the original post was wrong. However, I can confirm that it does work on NT4 SP6 using AS 5.6.1. Now I just gotta work out some good uses for it.

The are some caveats though. Q106166

Kinda reenforces my favorite bugbear with W2K though. Why do I have to waste all that disk storing copies of files that exist in \winnt\system32 in the hidden subdir \winnt\system32\dllcache? Including such important files as winmine.exe 220mb of wasted space! D'oh.

C:\test>test Contents of ./filename1.txt before linking: This is the contents of filename1.txt Contents of ./link.txt after linking: This is the contents of filename1.txt Coontents of ./filename1.txt after updating: This is the contents of filename1.txt Additional content Contents of ./link.txt after updating: This is the contents of filename1.txt Additional content

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Creating shortcuts
by jsprat (Curate) on Oct 15, 2002 at 19:22 UTC
    Why do I have to waste all that disk storing copies of files that exist in \winnt\system32 in the hidden subdir \winnt\system32\dllcache? Including such important files as winmine.exe 220mb of wasted space! D'oh.

    Same here. I was running low on space on my system drive a while back, didn't have the time to run out and get a new drive. The quick fix was sfc /cachesize=50, where 50 = 50MB. I can't remember if I had to manually clean up the dllcache directory or not ;)

    Look here for documentation, and enjoy all that new disk space - for a few days at least.