This is the best article about symbolic links, shortcuts, hardlinks and junctions I found so far, or at least the one I best understood. Thanks very much Ben.
I would like to add something about the post where “Robert” mentioned If there was a way of listing all the symbolic link on a computer.
Well one could use the command promt and enter:
dir /s /al c:\
Do this for all the drives you have Juncions, symbolic links and shortcuts. Let’s say you want a listing on your desktop about all the juncitons, symbolic links etc for c: and subfolders:
dir /s /al c:\ > %userprofile%\desktop\junctions.txt