Subst command and Visual Subst

Monday, February 28th 2011. Posted in Tips & Tricks by admin

Perhaps you have a folder in your Windows computer you use often in the location where the folder is in too because it is in other folders. How do you reach and open the folder? If you do this with browse each folder before, it certainly is not efficient if frequently used. Some of you may mempersingkatnya create a shortcut to the folder and placed on the desktop. Another way that may be used by you is to create virtual drives that map the folder is the subst command from the Command Prompt.
For you who do not recognize the command subst, it is quite easy to use. Command Prompt after opening, the sample can diketikkan is like this:
subst M: “C: \ Documents and Settings \ name \ My Documents \ My Music”
With the command above will create a virtual drive M to associate the directory C: \ Documents and Settings \ name \ My Documents \ My Music. So when the M drive is opened with the same contents folder. Note that the address to write to the folder on the end does not include backslash.
Commands that can be used to delete the virtual drive is created with the above is to use a command like this at the Command prompt:
subst M: / D
Benefits of using a virtual drive with the subst command is to make it easier to achieve a specific folder that is in, and virtual drives will also look at the window to open a file when using certain applications. Unfortunately, creating a virtual drive this only applies to the Windows session when using this command. After restarting Windows, the virtual drive this will be lost. To have a virtual drive that was created when Windows opens, we can make it as a service by adding a record in the registry. For ease, type the following command on the notepad or other text editor:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Session Manager \ DOS Devices]

“M:” = “\ \? \ \ C: \ \ Documents and Settings \ \ name \ \ My Documents \ \ My Music”

And save with extension. Reg. Of course its first match with the virtual drive that will be created and the folder akan dituju. After that, double click the file.’s Reg. But after restarting the computer, the virtual drive that should have been made.

Virtual Subst

If you need a virtual drive such as the making of the written above, but feel bothered to type the command and edit the registry, a simple and practical is to use the software Visual Subst.

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Visual Subst By making the virtual drive and penghapusannya can be done easily. To make this, you select a virtual drive that will be created and select the folder that dituju simply use the mouse. If you want a virtual drive that has been made possible after the restart Windows, then check the live Apply virtual drives on Windows start.

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Basically Visual Subst is a portable application that can be used with the installation without the need to download a zip it, but so also is provided in the website version installernya for users who prefer to use the installation. Visual Subst can be used for Windows 2000/XP/Vista.