I jumped through all the hoops:
- Create a non-admin account (in my case, activated the
guest
account). - As
Admin
, runsecpol.msc
and grant this accountCreate Symbolic Link
permissions. runas /user:guest cmd
to open a command window as the guest.only to get caught on the simplest problem: because I was running asguest
, I didn’t have write permissions within the directory. So,- As admin, change permissions in the target directory (where you want to make the link) to give write access to the non-admin user.