windows 7 How do I create a symbolic link for Window 7?

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I am trying to setup an Appache Web Server to experiment with WordPress development.  I installed a program called XAMPP that installs the MYSQL server, the Appache server and the necessary PHP stuff to create a working environment.  The book author suggested

that I create a separate directory C:WPDev  to use for WordPress development.  I was able to make the necessary changes to the httpd.conf file to get the Apache server to recognize this location, but now I can't get back to the PHPAdmin panel that I need

to manipulate the MySQL database.

 

So, what I thought I would do is to create a symbolic link back to the original webroot folder to be able to access those applications.  The command to do this, I have read is:

 

MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target

        /D      Creates a directory symbolic link.  Default is a file                symbolic link.        /H      Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.        /J      Creates a Directory Junction.        Link    specifies the new symbolic link name.        Target  specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link refers to.

 

My problem now is this.  I am logged on as administrator and yet I am getting this error message when I try to use the command:

c:WPDev>mklink /D xampp C:xampphtdocsYou do not have sufficient privilege to perform this operation.

 

Why don't I have sufficient privileges to perform this operation as the administrator on this machine?  This does not make whole lot of sense to me.

 

My guess is that it has to do with permissions given to this administrator user ID.  It looks like the directory WPDev inherits permissions from the parent drive, however unlike Windows XP, I can't just take control of this directory and start altering permissions. 

When I look at the summary permissions, I think that I should be able to do it.   I think that I have full permissions, but there may be something about the mklink command that I am missing.

 

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