gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » subst folder http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Associate Folders With Virtual Driveshttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/07/associate-folders-with-virtual-drives/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/07/associate-folders-with-virtual-drives/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:24:55 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5930 Windows already comes with the subst command that can associated folders with virtual drives so that those folders appear with a drive letter whenever partitions and drives are shown in Windows. Most users feel uncomfortable using the command prompt and prefer a graphical user interface instead.

Visual Subst is one of the few software programs out there that can associate folders with drives. The portable application can be run from any location and saves the information in an ini file so that the changes can be reloaded after restarting Windows.

The interface is pretty self-explanatory. The user picks a free drive letter from the list of available ones and selects a folder that should be associated with it. The folder is then accessible through the drive letter as well which can be quite handy for certain tasks.

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Visual Subst ist compatible to Windows 2000, Windows XP and newer operating system which would include Windows Vista.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/07/associate-folders-with-virtual-drives/feed/ 1 Assign Drive Letters to Foldershttp://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/18/assign-drive-letters-to-folders/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/18/assign-drive-letters-to-folders/#comments Fri, 18 Aug 2006 12:36:42 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2006/08/18/assign-drive-letters-to-folders/ This tip is really great if you have some folders on your computer that you are working very often with. Instead of navigating to the folder on the hard drive you assign a drive letter to that folder and can access it like it was a own partition or hard drive on your computer. It is very easy to assign a drive letter to a folder, do the following:

Click Start, Run and enter cmd. This should open the command line interface of your windows operating system. The command that we need is the “subst” command and we use it the following way.

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Lets say you want to assign the drive letter X to the folder d:\movies on your hard drive. To do that you write the following command:

subst x: d:\movies

That is all. Fairly easy isn’t it ? Now the drive letter x: remains accessible as long as you do not turn off or reboot windows. If you want to make this permanent you will have to do the following.

Create a new file and name it drive.bat. Edit the file and add the line subst x: d:\movies to it and save it.

Right click the Start button, select Open All Users. Open Programs, Startup and right click that location. Select New Shortcut, and select the drive.bat file that you created. Select Next and finish. The command will be executed for all users with every startup of windows.

If you are running for example Windows 95 you could edit the autoexec.bat and add the line there.

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