Even in the days of modern Windows 10 apps like Groove and Movies & TV there is still room for good old Windows Media Player. Did you know you can setup Windows Media Player to work as a media server in your home? Once setup you can access content stored on your Windows 10 PC on an Xbox One, Android phone, smart TV or another Windows device in your home.The functionally is based on DLNA and is built into Windows Media Player, you just need to turn it on.In this video I walk through enabling a media server using Windows Media Player. This tip and many others are in my new book Entertainment Apps on the go with Windows 10.
What Are Symbolic Links?Symbolic links are basically advanced shortcuts. Create a symbolic link to an individual file or folder, and that link will appear to be the same as the file or folder to Windows—even though it’s just a link pointing at the file or folder.For example, let’s say you have a program that needs its files at C:Program. You’d really like to store this directory at D:Stuff, but the program requires that its files be at C:Program. You could move the original directory from C:Program to D:Stuff, and then create a symbolic link at C:Program pointing to D:Stuff. When you relaunch the program, it will try to access its directory at C:Program.
Windows will automatically redirect it to D:Stuff, and everything will just work as if it were in C:Program.This trick can be used for all sorts of things, including syncing any folder with programs like Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.There are two type of symbolic links: Hard and soft. Soft symbolic links work similarly to a standard shortcut. When you open a soft link to a folder, you will be redirected to the folder where the files are stored. However, a hard link makes it appear as though the file or folder actually exists at the location of the symbolic link, and your applications won’t know any better. That makes hard symbolic links more useful in most situations.Note that Windows doesn’t actually use the terms “hard link” and “soft link”. Instead, it uses the terms “hard link” and “symbolic link”.
In the Windows documentation, a “symbolic link” is the same thing as a “soft link”. However, the mklink command can create both hard links (known as “hard links” in Windows) and soft links (known as “symbolic links” in Windows). How to Create Symbolic Links with mklinkYou can create symbolic links using the mklink command in a Command Prompt window as Administrator. To open one, locate the “Command Prompt” shortcut in your Start menu, right-click it, and select “Run as Administrator”.On, you can use a normal Command Prompt window, without running it as an Administrator. However, to do this without an Administrator Command Prompt window, you must first enable Developer Mode from Settings Update & Security For Developers.
Without any extra options, mklink creates a symbolic link to a file. The below command creates a symbolic, or “soft”, link at Link pointing to the file Target: mklink Link TargetUse /D when you want to create a soft link pointing to a directory. Like so: mklink /D Link TargetUse /H when you want to create a hard link pointing to a file: mklink /H Link TargetUse /J to create a hard link pointing to a directory, also known as a directory junction: mklink /J Link TargetSo, for example, if you wanted to create a hard link at C:LinkToFolder that pointed to C:UsersNameOriginalFolder, you’d run the following command: mklink /J C:LinkToFolder C:UsersNameOriginalFolderYou’ll need to put quotation marks around paths with spaces. For example, if the folders are instead named C:Link To Folder and C:UsersNameOriginal Folder, you’d use the following command instead: mklink /J 'C:Link To Folder' 'C:UsersNameOriginal Folder'If you see the message “You do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.”, you need to launch the Command Prompt as Administrator before running the command. How to Create Symbolic Links with a Graphical ToolIf you’re like to do this with a graphical tool, download.
With the new dynamic provisioning capabilities and tools provided with Windows 10, it is now possible to avoid this. The goal of dynamic provisioning is to take a new PC out of the box, turn it on, and transform it into a productive organization device, with minimal time and effort. Witzend Search Library 5.2.1 The Witzend Search Library (TM) component SDK is a toolkit of fast. For Windows and the Web. Drop the Search Library component into your project and instantly your program. WordPerfect, and HTML. Available as both a fast dynamic link library and small ActiveX control.