Tag: DRIVELETTERS

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 ...

Drive letters are lame. The antiquated concept of "drive letters" is a hold-over from the days of CP/M. Virtual Subst lets you take a little advantage from the long-toothed concept of drive letters by allowing you to assign a letter to each of your most often used directories. If you have frequently accessed long paths, Virtual Subst makes them as easy as "z:". It's a great idea if you're stuck ...