The full form of FollowSymLinks is Follow Symbolic Links.

In computing, a symbolic link (also symlink or soft link) is a term for any file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute or relative path and that affects pathname resolution.

Symbolic links were already present by 1978 in minicomputer operating systems from DEC and Data General’s RDOS. Today they are supported by the POSIX operating system standard, most Unix-like operating systems such as FreeBSD, Linux, and macOS. Limited support also exists in Windows operating systems such as Windows Vista, Windows 7 and to some degree in Windows 2000 and Windows XP in the form of shortcut files.

If you’ve been using Windows for quite some time, chances are good that you create and use shortcuts regularly. Shortcuts can save you time and effort when it comes to quickly accessing applications or folders. While creating and using these types of standard shortcuts is simple, Windows also comes with a little command-line tool call MKLink, which allows you to create a more advanced type of shortcut called a symbolic link.

More specifically, a symbolic link is a file system object that points to another file system object. The object can be either a file or a folder. Symbolic links are transparent to users–the links appear as normal files or folders and can be accessed by applications and users in exactly the same manner. Keep this thought in mind as we explore MKLink tool.

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