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Creating Virtual Drives from Folders with Visual Subst
Tags: The subst command is left over from the days of DOS and is still found in all releases of Windows. With subst one is able to assign a hard drive letter to any particular folder on the file system. There are a lot of reasons one would find this useful but in my instance, I still do a fair bit of Windows work from the command prompt. Navigating through the numerous nested folders is cumbersome and subst alleviates that problem nicely. Perhaps that’s why Microsoft includes Windows Explorer with every release … but old habits die hard and I just find the latter faster in most cases.
So, what’s the problem with subst? It’s command line based and, for most people, that rules it completely out. As much as I like the command line, I can admit that a graphical interface can be extremely useful.
Visual Subst is one such case. Visual Subst wraps the command line subst in an attractive and intuitive interface. Once installed, the user is able to select an available drive letter from a drop-down and then associated a folder to that selection. Simple, straight forward, and user friendly – what more is necessary?
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