I jumped through all the hoops:
- Create a non-admin account (in my case, activated the
guestaccount). - As
Admin, runsecpol.mscand grant this accountCreate Symbolic Linkpermissions. runas /user:guest cmdto 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.