Note - this only works if the drive partition is formatted in NTFSThe idea (and a lot of technical detail), came from here:
http://shell-shocked.org/article.php?id=284I used "junction" to create my symlink, you could alternatively use fsutil, or a number of other tools listed on the above webpage. Junction is a tiny, standaline executable (very safe, doesn't need to be installed), and is available from:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysint ... ction.mspxDo all the following on the XP computer.
1. Download the zip file, open it and copy Junction.exe to "C:\windows\system32". You can copy it to somewhere else if you prefer.
2. Create 3 new folders in windows at the following locations (if they don't already exist). Do not create a new "backgrounds" folder. If you previously created a "backgrounds" folder at "c:\programdata\zionworx\2.6\backgrounds" you will have to delete it, move it somewhere else or rename it.
c:\programdata
c:\programdata\zionworx
c:\programdata\zionworx\2.6
3. Click on Start > Run (or you could use a cmd prompt window instead).
4. If you have installed ZIonworx in the default location on both the XP and Vista computer, enter the following command. If not, you'll need to amend the command to the correct locations for your computer.
junction "c:\programdata\zionworx\2.6\backgrounds" "c:\program files\zionworx\backgrounds"
If you copied junction somewhere else other than to system32, for example C:\downloads, amend the above command as necessary, for example:
c:\downloads\junction "c:\programdata\zionworx\2.6\backgrounds" "c:\program files\zionworx\backgrounds"
5. Press enter to run the command, if you get prompted to confirm you want to run junction.exe, click on "yes" or the "Run" button.
That's it. Whenever Zionworx on your XP computer looks for background images in either of the above old and new locations, it will actually find them in the old location.
If anyone needs any help, contact me at adrianpaulwood2@gmail.com. I could create a script to automatically do all this for you if you tell me where the old and new locations. Or maybe someone else could kindly create a more flexible script or utility to do this?