Scoop is pretty sweet, and I use it to install all the stuff I love. However, part of its path and version management strategy is to place a shim executable in a single known location that thunks to the real binary. Long story short, it has issues and other people have tried to work around it.

Rather than try to find a better shim, this simple script sets up symbolic links instead. This gets me the closest-to-genuine experience with the tools that I use. And Scoop already uses directory junctions in its version management, so this isn't really adding any strange new dependencies.

Note that to create a symlink on Windows 10, you need the SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege. The simplest ways to get this are to be in the Administrators group, or to enable "Developer mode" in the "Update & Security" settings page.