Win 10 MKLINK in C:\Users Access Denied

jerryrig

9/30/23, 6:38 PM

I have Win 10 21H2 Bld 19044.1706 stand-alone workstation, no domain, just WORKGROUP.

I did a Laplink PCMover transfer to new computer but it changed profile name from "john.WORKGROUP" to "john". Everything is working except a million links like "C:\Users\john.WORKGROUP\Documents\something.exe" so I want to make a link named "C:\Users\john.WORKGROUP" that points to "C:\Users\john" but everything I've tried results in "Access Denied."

User "john" is an administrator.

I changed ownership of everything in Users to "jerry" (was "TrustedInstaller") and ran "Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux" in powershell, rebooted, but still Access Denied.

How can I make this link?

(I know this is serverfault, but StackOverflow does not seem like the right place and windows forums are useless.)

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Manu

9/30/23, 5:47 AM

Is there a reason, you don't want to change the folder name to the original "john"? If not, have a look at this: https://superuser.com/questions/890812/how-to-rename-the-user-folder-in-windows-10

Massimo

9/30/23, 6:43 PM

What exactly was the point of installing WSL?!?

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EN: Win 10 MKLINK in C:\Users Access Denied

TH: ชนะ 10 MKLINK ใน C:\Users การเข้าถึงถูกปฏิเสธ

RO: Câștigă 10 MKLINK în C:\Accesul utilizatorilor refuzat

RU: Win 10 MKLINK в папке C:\Users Access Denied

VI: Kiếm được 10 MKLINK trong C:\Users Truy cập bị từ chối

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