I assume you tried under PowerShell. Apparently buildins from ``cmd.exe`` (the 
original windows shell) are not available by default in PowerShell. In your 
case there are 2 options (sorry for the incomplete reference in my last post):
* run ``mklink`` from a normal (``cmd.exe``) shell
* run ``cmd \c mklink`` from a PowerShell

Developer mode is a windows 10 thingie so you shouldn't worry about it. This 
report shouldn't have any impact on creating release builds (unless you are 
planning to introduce symlinks in the code base).

At the moment the impact from this report is probably pretty low. Depending 
whether or not symlink usage under windows starts snowballing (due to increased 
usage of certain package managers and symlink heavy git repositories for 
instance) it could become a usability issue.

One other note. 
When setting up to provide a 3rd column to show behaviour when using shortcut 
files (*.lnk) I noted that the link is dereferenced upon opening showing the 
target. Although it prevents the problem stated in this report it might add to 
the confusion (why do .lnk files dereference and symlinks not).
It could off course also be intended behaviour, but for completeness I wanted 
to include this.


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