Microsoft has implemented linking tools in its NTFS operating file systems since Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. These links provide a convenient method for users to access their data.

Over the years Microsoft continued to improve these tools which can now be used to link files and/or directories together. The latest form of file link was introduced in Windows Vista and continues to form part of their latest operating system. In this article we will look at what these file links are and how they differ from one another.
What are NTFS Hard Links, Junctions and Symbolic Links?

Hard links, junction points and symbolic links are linking processes used by Windows to associate other files, directories or volumes. One of the methods to create file links is to use the command line program mklink:

• To create a file hard link: mklink /H linkName target
• To create a directory junction: mklink /J linkName target
• To create a directory symbolic link: mklink /D linkName target
• To create a file symbolic link: mklink linkName target

The following sections describe each type of file link in detail.

Here we will discuss how to block website on MikroTik? how to block domain in MikroTik router and how to block social media websites on MikroTik, like Youtube, Facebook, Twitter.

One of the best solutions so far is to force everyone on the network to use a dns resolver you control and block the dns request for this domain.

/ip firewall nat

add action=dst-nat chain=dstnat dst-address=!<dns-server> dst-port=53 \
protocol=udp to-addresses=<dns-server> to-ports=53
add action=dst-nat chain=dstnat dst-address=!<dns-server> dst-port=53 \
protocol=tcp to-addresses=<dns-server> to-ports=53

Then either create a static dns entry for download.windowsupdate.com pointing to 127.0.0.1 or use the layer7 filter to identify and drop the request.

Thanks to crazy-max:
https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker

Windows Update & Windows Telemetry IP address lists //

Reroute Windows Updates via VPN
/ip firewall mangle
add action=mark-connection chain=prerouting dst-address-list=windows_update new-connection-mark=\
c_windows_update passthrough=yes
add action=mark-packet chain=prerouting connection-mark=c_windows_update \
new-packet-mark=p_windows_update passthrough=yes
add action=mark-routing chain=prerouting new-routing-mark=VPN packet-mark=p_windows_update passthrough=no

 /ip route

add distance=1 gateway=<your-vpn-gateway> routing-mark=VPN

While I’m always a skeptic when it comes to the government actually doing the right thing, which in this case would be not spending $3.5 trillion on broad entitlements that aren’t needed, I’m not seeing how the two sides get together here. Pelosi is already having a hard enough time rallying the moderates by herself. Now, she has Biden and his White House actively rallying progressives to keep obstructing when they themselves have no leverage to speak of. It’s a recipe for nothing passing at all.

And that’s great if you are a Republican, but it’s still worth noting just how ineffective and impotent Joe Biden is. This is a man who has no sense of his own ability or lack thereof. He truly believes he’s above it all, able to show up at Congress, say “c’mon man” a few times, and have his agenda rubber-stamped. But he’s learning quickly, to the extent he can process what’s even happening, that he has no mandate. I couldn’t think of a better way to start the fall season.