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DirectDrive from EGE Software. It assigns virtual drive letters to
folders on your hard drive.

Windows uses the letters of the alphabet -- A-Z -- to designate drives,
and has already used A-D for physical drives (floppy, hard disk, CD-ROM,
etc.) on most PCs. That leaves about twenty letters that DirectDrive can
assign to folders.

LONG FOLDER NAMES BECOME LETTERS. A folder buried several levels deep,
e.g., MyDocuments\Administrative\Time Sheets\PartTimers, can be
designated virtual drive, T. The folder where you store downloaded
software, K. Your password folder, P. The virtual driver letters will
appear in Windows Explorer. They can be opened by typing the letter in
the Start/Run box; easily sub-divided; separately scanned for viruses,
backed-up, zipped up, etc.

DOS DEJA VU. Veterans of the days of DOS are experiencing extreme deja
vu about now. Yes, old buddy, virtual drive letters were assigned in DOS
using the SUBST command. In fact, that's how DirectDrive accomplishes
its magic today. It just makes it easy and foolproof for the rest of us,
who don't know a command line from a conga line.

DirectDrive is available FREE and needs a PC with a Pentium processor
running Windows 95/98/NT/2000. It will NOT work with Windows Millennium,
which doesn't include an accessible DOS substrate.

Ege software homepage no longer exists. Redbay Software offers a newer
version as shareware. Version 2.01 is available here
http://www.roberto-galetto.de/downlaod.html
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Has anyone tried this out?
More info and screenshot here "if this works"
 
JoeA <[email protected]> wrote:
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DirectDrive from EGE Software. It assigns virtual drive letters to
folders on your hard drive.
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Nice find, but I cannot see it as a valuable utility. Perhaps it might
be to others. The usage of Norton Commander type file navigators allow
a user to do most anything desired easily.
Windows uses the letters of the alphabet -- A-Z -- to designate drives,
and has already used A-D for physical drives (floppy, hard disk, CD-ROM,
etc.) on most PCs. That leaves about twenty letters that DirectDrive can
assign to folders.
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LONG FOLDER NAMES BECOME LETTERS. A folder buried several levels deep,
e.g., MyDocuments\Administrative\Time Sheets\PartTimers, can be
designated virtual drive, T. The folder where you store downloaded
software, K. Your password folder, P. The virtual driver letters will
appear in Windows Explorer. They can be opened by typing the letter in
the Start/Run box; easily sub-divided; separately scanned for viruses,
backed-up, zipped up, etc.
Click to expand...
DOS DEJA VU. Veterans of the days of DOS are experiencing extreme deja
vu about now. Yes, old buddy, virtual drive letters were assigned in DOS
using the SUBST command. In fact, that's how DirectDrive accomplishes
its magic today. It just makes it easy and foolproof for the rest of us,
who don't know a command line from a conga line.
Click to expand...

I have never came across the DOS command, but it's very easy to set
manually. It is in XP, and earlier versions also I assume.

At a DOS prompt wherever the virtual drive is preferred:

"C:\Program Files\Some Subdirectory\Storage\Documents>subst G: ."

The dot acts as a placeholder to set G: as that location.

To show assigned drives: "subst"

To disable: "subst G: /d"
DirectDrive is available FREE and needs a PC with a Pentium processor
running Windows 95/98/NT/2000. It will NOT work with Windows Millennium,
which doesn't include an accessible DOS substrate.
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Ege software homepage no longer exists. Redbay Software offers a newer
version as shareware. Version 2.01 is available here
Click to expand...
Has anyone tried this out?
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Have a go with commandline and see if this really saves you time. I'm
a horrible typist and I still do not see the utility in this utility.
More info and screenshot here "if this works"
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Again, nice find. I've never seen the program or the command.
 
JoeA said:
DirectDrive from EGE Software. It assigns virtual drive letters to
folders on your hard drive.

Windows uses the letters of the alphabet -- A-Z -- to designate
drives, and has already used A-D for physical drives (floppy, hard
disk, CD-ROM, etc.) on most PCs. That leaves about twenty letters
that DirectDrive can assign to folders.

LONG FOLDER NAMES BECOME LETTERS. A folder buried several levels deep,
e.g., MyDocuments\Administrative\Time Sheets\PartTimers, can be
designated virtual drive, T. The folder where you store downloaded
software, K. Your password folder, P. The virtual driver letters will
appear in Windows Explorer. They can be opened by typing the letter in
the Start/Run box; easily sub-divided; separately scanned for viruses,
backed-up, zipped up, etc.

DOS DEJA VU. Veterans of the days of DOS are experiencing extreme deja
vu about now. Yes, old buddy, virtual drive letters were assigned in
DOS using the SUBST command. In fact, that's how DirectDrive
accomplishes its magic today. It just makes it easy and foolproof for
the rest of us, who don't know a command line from a conga line.
Click to expand...
Has anyone tried this out?
More info and screenshot here "if this works"
Click to expand...

Well, if smeone rely wants a user interface uitility for this: I just
finnished making one in Visual basic 6 (I started after I saw JoeA's
message. Just to see how quick I could do this). Noting very fancy: you can
browse for a directory, select the drive letter and asign it (or select a
driveletter and delete it)

*FEATURE* Select the demo option to see what command is passed to the shell.
*WOW!* ;-)
You will need VB runtime 6 SP5 installed for this.

If there is any interest for it, I will upload it somwhere. If not, I
probably sell it to Babya Systems LTD. ;-)

MightyKitten
 
JoeA said the following on 3/24/2004 3:09 AM:
DirectDrive from EGE Software. It assigns virtual drive letters to
folders on your hard drive.
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I made a program that accomplishes this same thing a while ago in VB. I
don't have to code available though. You can also go
File->New->Permanent Virtual Drive and it will add a command to the
registry at start up to make the drive each time. I haven't made a
remove command because I was too lazy to find out the commands to do
it. I may fix it sometime soon.

The program is at (with a few others):
http://www.cleanmycomputer.net/software.html

Note: the Network Message Send program on this page is out-dated.
Please check out http://www.freesoftware.com/netsend if you want to try
that out. I've changed it a wole lot.
 
If there is any interest for it, I will upload it somwhere. If not, I
probably sell it to Babya Systems LTD. ;-)

MightyKitten
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At last, Babya will have an app worth downloading. Thanks MK

:)
 
Doc said:
At last, Babya will have an app worth downloading. Thanks MK

:)
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Yes, It'd be a very useful utility for me to include ( or offer as a
standalone download) with my software
 
Yes, It'd be a very useful utility for me to include ( or offer as a
standalone download) with my software
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Now Fussy ... Answer me a simple question please ..........

HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO FLUSH BEFORE YOU GO AWAY ?
 
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