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What is the **reason** that "Windows can't make a shortcut here" ?
I need to reduce the volume of my C:\ drive by about half; it is a 222GB partition of an SSD drive at the moment. My plan is just to move as many folders that are today in C:\ to the internal non-SSD drive of my laptop, and replace the folders with "shortcuts" to the real folders. It seems that I have enough space to keep the folders Program Files, Program Files (x86), Prorgran Data, Users, and Windows intact on the soon-to-be-shrunk partition.
WHen I began to carry this out, of course I discovered that "Windows can't make a shortcut here" when I tried to drag-and-drop "create a shortcut here" to the C:\ drive. I am not asking for a work-around. But I'd like to learn if there is some rational reason that MS makes me do a whole little series of annoying and useless mouse-clicks to accomplish what I wanted to do.
It's as if the dialog box that pops up really should say "windows can't make a shortcut here ,,,, unless we first annoy the sh*t out of you. Enjoy the REST of your day (i.e. the part AFTER the next 10 mouse ciicks -- they're on us)."
I can't help but hope that the energy that was spent making it difficult to put a shortcut where i'd like it to go was done for a higher purpose.
THanks for any insight/explanation.