Filed under: Windows, Productivity, Freeware
Folder-to-Drive Alchemy With Visual Subst
by Lee Mathews Jul 3rd 2008
No, it won't really turn your folders gold, but Visual Subst does deserve a medal. It's little more than a GUI frontend to the Windows prompt's subst command, but if there's one thing we like more than commands that save repetitious typing it's pretty graphical systems to utilize them.
What subst does is create a symbolic link - assigning any folder on your system its own drive letter. Most of us aren't even close to using up all 26 letters, so why not set up a few of them as ridiculously short routes to get at our commonly used folders?
Visual Subst makes the process ridiculously simple, just choose an available drive letter, browse to your folder, and click the green plus. Just like that, your new virtual drive shows up in My Computer. Now getting at the temp folder is as easy as windows + r, t:, enter. Simple. Check the box at the bottom, and your new drives return after a reboot.
For a 110k application, Visual Subst is a no-brainer. You've got to have it, we swear!
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