Omelette should use mklink on Windows Vista/7

Bug #433501 reported by Kyle MacFarlane
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Bug Description

Unlike junction.exe on Windows XP, mklink comes with Vista and 7 by default and can also create links to files as well as directories, which would get rid of the warning on line 165.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link

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Kyle MacFarlane (kyle-deletethetrees) wrote :

Mklink requires administrator privileges to work.

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Kyle MacFarlane (kyle-deletethetrees) wrote :

This patch converts existing junctions to symlinks rather than accidentally deleting everything as the previous one sometimes did.

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