Permission to make symbolic links in Windows 7?
Problem
How can I grant a particular user the permission to create symlinks in Windows 7? I've searched through "Group Policy" and Google, but haven't found anything. On a side note, is there a way to search through everything in Group Policy Editor? The filters only seem to work on particular subtrees. I never actually found anything using the filters.
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Fix for: Permission to make symbolic links in Windows 7?
Open the Local Group Policy Editor : > . If that doesn't work try (Note, Windows Home users might need to enable group-policy-editor first). Go to (Windows Pro users might don't see the first two items ) : → and edit the . Add the user or group that you want to allow to create symbolic links. If you've added your own user account, you need to log out and log in back in for the change to have an effect. Note: This setting has no effect on user accounts that belong to the Administrators group. Th…
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