Symbolic Link Creator : User-friendly GUI for mklink to help you seamlessly create symbolic links, hard links and directory junctions, featuring clear-cut options
Symbolic Link Creator represents a graphical user interface for mklink, the feature that Windows has hidden inside Command Prompt. It gives you the possibility to seamlessly create symbolic link, hard links and directory junctions, as the name hints at.
Clear-cut installation and interface
The setup operation is a fast and simple task that doesn't require special attention. As far as the interface goes, Symbolic Link Creator adopts a small window with a plain and simple structure that provides direct access to all available options.You can begin by selecting the type of symlink you want to create: file or folder. In the following step you can indicate the saving directory, file name, and patch to the real link you want to connect it to.After picking the link type between hard link, symbolic link and directory junction, you can easily initialize the task with one click. There are no other notable options provided by this piece of software.
Evaluation and conclusion
There were no issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that Symbolic Link Creator didn't hang, crash or display error messages. Unsurprisingly, its impact on the overall performance of the computer was minimal, since it needed low CPU and RAM to work properly.Although it doesn't contain rich options or configuration parameters, Symbolic Link Creator offers a simple solution to help you create symbolic links, hard links and directory junctions.
Windows 10 64 bit / Windows 10 / Windows 8 64 bit / Windows 8 / Windows 7 64 bit / Windows 7
Symbolic Link Creator runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
GNU Public License
license
— the installer is 41 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
System.
Help fellow users decide. Share your experience with Symbolic Link Creator.