If your employer or university provides you with Microsoft OneDrive, you’ll know how useful it can be. But the OneDrive folder name tends to be very, very long, like “OneDrive - The University of Quahog”. The long name can get in the way, for example when in the prompt of an IDE, in a terminal session or when browsing files in Explorer. One simple command, mklink, can fix that.

If you have installed WSL and one or more linux distributions, it is possible to work with the contents of their file systems from within Windows Explorer.