<p>You are correct on all accounts (PowerShell, symbolic link and this report not being about shortcut files).</p>
<p>The commands in the 1st post will create a test scenario with an (empty) regular file and a symbolic link to that file on your desktop.</p>
<p>I'm not sure when symlinks were exactly introduced in the Windows ecosystem and/or what the required steps are to activate them on older windows builds. I do know however that the next update will probably start increasing their popularity for using them under windows 10 by not requiring admin credentials after activating that feature.</p>

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