Allows you to easily create virtual drives for commonly used folders to quickly access them, edit or remove them just as easily with this simple applicationCertain folders on your PC can be quite difficult to access, and populating your desktop with numerous shortcuts is not always the best option.
Extra Subst is a nifty program that offers a solution, as it allows you to create additional virtual drives that lead to specific folders. You can use any of the available drive letters and enable or disable these shortcuts at any time.
Useful application that enables you to create virtual drives
Creating a new virtual drive is a simple affair, as you simply need to determine which directory it should be linked with and assign it one of the remaining drive letters. The new virtual drive shares its disk space with the physical drive the linked folder is stored on.
However, it is not possible to change the labels of the created drives. Because of this, it is rather difficult to tell them apart or find specific items, as their only unique feature is the assigned drive letter.
Manage the extra drives and enable or disable them at any time
The application displays all the virtual drives in a simple list, and any of them can be removed when no longer required. Of course, no data is lost when you perform this action, as the virtual drive only links you to an existing folder on your computer.
Extra Subst can load the created virtual drives on Windows startup, so there is no need to launch the program and enable each of them manually after every restart.
1. What is "Extra Subst"?
"Extra Subst" – program designed to make access to
frequently used folders of your computer easier. It is also used
to create, edit and remove virtual drives of your computer.
"Extra Subst" creates virtual drives on the basis of
selected folders. Physical drives remain unchanged and are not
divided into additional partitions.
Example 1:
By default the folder "My Documents" is situated in the
operational system "MS Windows" rather uncomfortably:
"C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\My Documents\"
With the help of the program "Extra Subst" you
can create a virtual drive - for example drive "R:\" and
select "My Documents" folder. After that, in your system
the drive "R:\" will appear in which your documents will
be kept. To access your documents you just click the drive
icon "R:\" and there is no need to look for it
in a folders tree.
Example 2:
You can create virtual drives for any folders with which you
work often. For example, you can create drive "M:\" for the
folder with your musical files "d:\archive\music\",
drive "V:\" for the folder with your video files "d:\archive\music\"
or drive "G:\" for the folder with your games and you do not need
to divide your hard drive into additional partitions for that.
System requirements.
OS Windows 10/8.1/8/7/VISTA/2000/XP x86 x64
Minimum screen resolution 800x600
Pentium processor and above
4 Gb RAM
100 Mb free disk space
2. Features
Program interface consists of three basic parts:
1. "Drive Explorer" – shows all used drives of your computer with
necessary information about them. When you double-click on selected
drive, "Explorer" with selected drive will be opened. In this part
of the program interface you can also remove selected virtual drives
with the help of "Remove" button.
2. "Available Drives" – the list of available drives of your computer.
This part of the program interface is used for creating virtual drive.
When you select the disk and press the button "New" or double-click
the selected drive a virtual drive is created in your system and the
record about it is placed in the list "Start Up Virtual Drives".
3. "Start Up Virtual Drives" – the list of records about created in
the operation system virtual drives. In this part of the program
interface you can adjust the list of drives initialized during
start up of your computer.
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