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I would like to be able to use mklink without the inconvenience of right-clicking on cmd.exe and choosing "Run as Administrator". I am logged in at work as a domain user with local admin privileges, and UAC is enabled.

I have added the following to "Create Symbolic Links" in "User Rights Assignment" in Local Security Policy: Administrators, Users, OURDOMAIN\MyUsername.

I then logged out and back in.

When I type WHOAMI /PRIV it still doesn't show SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege.

What am I doing wrong (or failing to do)?

Klitos Kyriacou
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If you're trying to create a symbolic link on a local directory, then it's possible domain policy is overriding the local policy you set.

Alex C. Wolff
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Setting Create Symbolic Link privilege in Secpol has no effect if your user is in the Administrator group. This has been answered in quite a few places already. Here's one: How can I create symbolic links in Windows 8.1 without an admin command prompt?

th3coop
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