On Windows, I rarely use Emacs because I have never figured out how to get dired to follow the Windows symbolic links that I often use to organise my folders and files. If I remember correctly, the last time I tried, I could only find a rather outdated example without much explanation that I could not get to work. If anyone reading this knows how to do it and has also some talent for writing: It would be very worthwhile to have a tutorial that explains in detail how to do this in a beginner-friendly way.