Symlinks is a utility that allows two paths to point to the same set of files and subfolders. This is a handy utility on linux which lets you point one path on linux to another path. To do achieve the same functionality on Windows XP, software called junction can be used. provided by SysInternals.

Here is the help from the junction.exe

D:\>junction /?
Junction v1.05 - Windows junction creator and reparse point viewer
Copyright (C) 2000-2007 Mark Russinovich
Systems Internals - http://www.sysinternals.com

Does this window appear when you open CHM files ?

This happend to me after upgrading to Internet Exporer 7.

If you are wondering why you cant read the CHM files, just do the steps below :

• Close the CHM file
• Open it again and you will get the same popup as shown below