Comments on: Create persistent substituted drives (subst) in Windows

By: Elf4God

Elf4God — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:07:25 +0000

It’s worked excellent for me so far, no matter what the processor.

By: broon

broon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:06:18 +0000

Shortcuts probably don’t work with apps like P4.

By: Elf4God

Elf4God — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:36:55 +0000

Exactly. I wrote the steps for the benefit of whoever reads this.

Anyway, a shortcut seems a lot easier than creating a persistent substituted drive. The point is easy access to your folder, right? I have a lot of folders categorized by different subjects and filled with shortcuts to the desired files. Say, I want my documents, videos, and web pages about programming in one place, but I want the videos to stay in the Videos folder, and I want my documents to stay in My Documents. What to do? Copying the whole vid, doc, etc., would be a waste of space, so I make send shortcuts of the stuff I need to the Programming folder I just made. The stuff stays put, but I can access all I need for programming by going to my new folder and using the shortcuts. Creating the persistant substituted drive is cool, really. But doesn’t seem to me to be the most efficient way to access files with long paths. Thanks anyway! ^^

By: Elf4God

Elf4God — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:20:29 +0000

This is interesting, but you could go the much simpler route to get to locations having a long file path:

1. Right click the target folder.
2. Select “Send To”
3. Select “Desktop (Shortcut)”
4. Go to your Desktop and find the new shortcut.
5. Right click on it.
6. Select “Cut”.
7. Navigate to wherever you want the shortcut to go.
8. Right click and select “Paste”.
9. If you want to rename it, right click, select “Rename”, and type away.

By: John

John — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:41:44 +0000

Isn’t this like a shortcut? Like when you right click a folder and say create shortcut.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:44:17 +0000

This is totally cool. You tend to think of drive letters as really permanent and fixed. This gives you flexibility to do a bunch of stuff. Awesome.