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Change drive letters in Windows 2000 Professional
Too dangerous...use SUBST command insteadChanging the physical drive letter via Drive Management will affect every other program that expects and uses the original drive letter. By using the old DOS SUBST command, you can keep the original drive letter, and add what amounts to an alias or virtual drive...
Tags: Operating systems, mark.yount@..., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000, Subst, operating system
Discussion threads 2007-08-28
Mapping drive letters to local folders in Windows XP
Mapping drive letters to local folders in Windows XParticle rootnice tip ...Hiya,I know that I've been a little sceptical and very critical of some "functional postings" over the past couple of months, but ...... At last someone with a tip that is both very functional and handy to know ..Initial...
Tags: ArthurP, corporate, disk, functionality, hardware, mapping, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, networking, Subst, user, windows
Discussion threads 2005-12-01
Mapping drive letters to local nested folders
If you are tired of clicking through a convoluted file system on your hard drive, check out this Daily Drill Down series from Greg Shultz. He provides a handy VBScript file you can use to map your local folders to a drive letter.I’m going to show you here how...
Tags: Operating systems, Scripting languages, Greg Shultz, Microsoft Windows, Subst
Technical articles 2001-08-08

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Xsubst (Deutsch) (zip)
XSubst is a freeware tool for managing subst drives and net drives with a lot of comfort. It can create temporary or permanent subst drives, can create drive icons shortcuts to the desktop manually or automatically. With the optional shell context extension sce it can integrate the basic functions connect...
Tags: Freeware, Xsubst
Software downloads 2007-12-12
Visual Subst (exe)
Visual Subst is a small enhancement utility which allows you create virtual drive letters to the most accessed directories in your system. For example, a long path C:Documents and SttingsUserMy DocumentsProjects could be easily accessed via the drive letter P: from any application. It may be very useful when working...
Tags: Letter, NTWind Software
Software downloads 2006-11-09
Mapping drive letters to local folders in Windows XP
If you could map a drive letter to a nested folder on your hard disk, then you could access nested subfolders in Windows XP just as easily as you can access shared folders on the network. Learn how to accomplish this task using the Subst command. If you regularly...
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Greg Shultz, Operating systems, Windows XP Tips Newsletter, Folder, Software
Technical articles 2005-11-29
IT Dojo: Quickly map drive letters in Windows XP with SUBST, PUSHD, and POPD
Mapping drive letters in Windows XP is a common task. It's not a complicated process, but you can save time with a few easy shortcuts. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler demonstrates three old DOS commands that making mapping folders and network shares a snap. First,...
Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, it dojo, windows xp, drive mapping, tips, help desk, network shares
Videos 2008-04-29
connect to local mapped drives
Does anyone know how I can get Windows XP to connect to mapped drives mapped to the local drive when disconnected from the network. They work OK when connected to any network, but Windows does not allow the connection when it does not see a network connection of some...
Tags: jholan@..., network
Discussion threads 2006-10-12
Arafasoft Virtual Drive Creator (exe)
Arafasoft Virtual Drive Creator) is a small but very useful utility used to create virtual drives maps of the contents of folders. Drive-mapping is similar to the DOS command SUBST, but Arafasoft Virtual Drive Creator is much more than SUBST, it is very easy to use with a good GUI...
Tags: Creator, Arafasoft Virtual Drive Creator, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
Software downloads 2006-05-03
Video: Quickly map drive letters in Windows XP with SUBST, PUSHD, and POPD
Mapping drive letters in Windows XP is a common task. It's not a complicated process, but you can save time with a few easy shortcuts. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler demonstrates two old DOS commands that making mapping folders and network shares a snap. First,...
Tags: Video, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Bill Detwiler
Blog posts 2008-05-23
vSubst v1.7
A freeware program, vSubst v1.7, is available which makes the implementation of subst simpler for the technically challenged.
Tags: fdcampbell@...
Discussion threads 2005-12-01
Merge Partition
Running Windows xp pro.Partitions C: through G:Would like to merge C: and D: in order to get more space. C: is running low and D: is almost empty.Would like to do it without purchased software and without re-formating the whole HD.Any ideas, shareware etc. that I can use?Thanks ...
Tags: C, D, Partition, willshaw3@..., windows
Q&A 2005-12-25
Mimic CDs with Virtual CD
Daemon Tools - an alternativeThere is another application supporting similar functionality - Daemon Tools ( see http://www.daemon-tools.cc). It actually started life as a CD emulator for games players who didn't want the bulk of carying around a fistfull of CD's.This tool is free for private use, and is only $16...
Tags: CD, Daemon Tools, Daemon-Tools, disk partition, Linux, Nero, rfoster@..., software, windows
Discussion threads 2005-03-14
How to run a login script when the domain is not avaiable
I have a number of laptop users who take their computers home and login to the domain using cached credentials. Using XP pro they will get a message saying the domain is not available. This is fine and they can still login. My question is there a way to have...
Tags: tgrigsby, domain, Offline Folders, login script
Discussion threads 2007-10-11
dvd powers down system
Has anyone ever seen a DVD player actually shut down a system? If a disk is in the drive on boot, it will shut off instantly. If you read a DVD/cd after XP H.E. starts, it will read and then shut down power off. I have subst. several different drives...
Tags: Consumer electronics, rmatevich@..., power supply, DVD, disk
Discussion threads 2007-07-11
Hard drive appears twice
Dear all,I have a problem with a server.A hard disk drive, which is the system drive, appears twice with different drive letters. Do you know anything about that?My guess would be 2 partitions on the same spindle.Do you have a second HD? If you do, the possible cause may be...
Tags: disk, hard drive, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, skopas@..., windows
Q&A 2005-09-09
Problems in Microsoft Office XP Professional
As an administrator I am facing the following problem:some of the Microsoft Office files can not be opened/copied /moved anymore.When trying to do this we received messages such as:a) "cannot copy file: File system error ( 1148)"b) "connot move file: File system error ( 1148)"c)"Cannot find file 'null' ( or...
Tags: floringeorge2001@..., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office XP, respective file, windows
Q&A 2004-12-09
Virtual folder in Windows Explorer
hello is there a way to map a folder as a virtual folder on a same drive?for example:D:folder1will have the same content asD:folder2and whenever i update [folder1], [folder2] will be updated and vice versai am an animator using 3dsmaxi get annoyed when 3dsmax asks for map folders when network renderingso...
Tags: hello, icelemon, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Explorer, windows
Q&A 2005-02-01
Problems opening Microsoft Office files
As an administrator I am facing a problem with one computer of one of our employees . Some of the Microsoft Office files can not be opened/copied /moved anymore.When trying to do this we received messages such as:a) "cannot copy file: File system error ( 1148)"b) "connot move file:...
Tags: floringeorge2001@..., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, respective file, virus, windows
Discussion threads 2004-11-01
Studying the Map Local Drive script
You asked for it, now here it is. Greg Shultz introduced you to his local drive mapping script in an earlier Daily Drill Down. Here, he covers each line in detail so you can get a handle on how this handy utility works.In my previous Daily Drill Down, I...
Tags: Scripting languages, Greg Shultz, Daily Drill-Down, Microsoft VBScript
Technical articles 2001-08-13
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