Editing Symbolic link (section)

====Folder shortcuts====
Almost like shortcuts, but transparent to the Windows shell.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb776817.aspx|title=Specifying a Namespace Extension's Location|website=msdn.microsoft.com|date=11 January 2008 |access-date=23 March 2018}}</ref> They are implemented as ordinary folders (which need to have the ''read only'' and/or ''system'' attribute<ref>{{Cite web|title=You cannot view or change the Read-only or the System attributes of folders in Windows Server 2003, in Windows XP, in Windows Vista or in Windows 7|url=https://support.microsoft.com/kb/256614/en-us |access-date=2021-07-08|website=support.microsoft.com}}</ref>) containing a shortcut named ''target.lnk'' which refers to the target and a (hidden) ''desktop.ini'' with (at least) the following contents:
<syntaxhighlight lang="ini">
[.ShellClassInfo]
CLSID2={0AFACED1-E828-11D1-9187-B532F1E9575D}
</syntaxhighlight>

Folder shortcuts are created and used from the Windows shell in the ''network neighborhood'' for example.