Windows – equivalent of mklink in Windows Powershell

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When I shift-right-click on a folder I had been able to "open command window here".

NOTE: I am NOT INTERESTED in the registry hack to put this feature back on.

After which I could use mklink to create symbolic links.

Under recent profound wisdom of Microsoft, after last couple of Windows 10 updates, "command window here" has been replaced with "powershell here".

Hence complying with Microsoft's esteemed wisdom implying that I should use powershell instead of the long outdated cmd

what is the equivalent of making a softlink in powershell?
and any other type of link that mklink could make?

Best Answer

This is answered in [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/34905638/4744055

But use New-Item Powershell command. No DOS CMD necessary any more.

   New-Item -Path <to> -ItemType SymbolicLink -Value <from>

New answer, powershell

TCP

Get-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort YourPortNumberHere).OwningProcess

UDP

Get-Process -Id (Get-NetUDPEndpoint -LocalPort YourPortNumberHere).OwningProcess

Old answer, cmd

 C:\> netstat -a -b

(Add -n to stop it trying to resolve hostnames, which will make it a lot faster.)

Note Dane's recommendation for TCPView. It looks very useful!

-a Displays all connections and listening ports.

-b Displays the executable involved in creating each connection or listening port. In some cases well-known executables host multiple independent components, and in these cases the sequence of components involved in creating the connection or listening port is displayed. In this case the executable name is in [] at the bottom, on top is the component it called, and so forth until TCP/IP was reached. Note that this option can be time-consuming and will fail unless you have sufficient permissions.

-n Displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form.

-o Displays the owning process ID associated with each connection.

Windows – “rm -rf” equivalent for Windows

RMDIR or RD if you are using the classic Command Prompt (cmd.exe):

rd /s /q "path"

RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path

/S Removes all directories and files in the specified directory in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory tree.

/Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to remove a directory tree with /S

If you are using PowerShell you can use Remove-Item (which is aliased to del, erase, rd, ri, rm and rmdir) and takes a -Recurse argument that can be shorted to -r

rd -r "path"

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New answer, powershell

TCP

UDP

Old answer, cmd

Windows – “rm -rf” equivalent for Windows

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