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(it's not a duplicate, but hey. I guess as per some of the comments, the answer is "you can't, Microsoft hasn't made it possible". It's annoying to see people incorrectly directed to a wrong resource at the top of the page, but I don't have any options for un-breaking the wrong filing, so I'll leave it here. Sorry, future visitors!)

I have created some hard links (Directory Junctions) - they show up in Windows File Explorer with a little shortcut-like icon overlaid on the normal folder icon.

But how do we edit them (and implicitly: see where they are pointing) in Windows Explorer?

Worst case, dropping down to the command line, even mklink doesn't appear to have editing as an option (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mklink) and I can't find anything in Windows File Explorer to see info on them (let alone edit it).

Do you have to manually delete each one and recreate it, rather than edit it?

Is there literally nothing in MS's own file explorer to view them? (the shell extensions I could find don't show where they point to, and don't let you destroy them, but do let you create them).

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