Almost all of us wants better accessibility to your documents or folders whatever. Though we try to keep our folder structure as much clean as possible but at times we need to have even quicker accessibility. Desktop Shortcuts are good to use but for those who want to keep their desktop clean (like me) then Mapping a drive letter to the folder is the best option.
Here we actually create a virtual drive with any letter that we want, that points to another location in any other drive. Quite Impressive right ? Yeah! Lets see..
Creating A Map Drive
Goto Start > Run > cmd.exe
Use the command subst <virtual drive name:> <local folder path> to map a new drive to the local folder. Here I have mapped the drive with the name X to a folder in my external hard drive.
subst x: j:\movies\
Removing A Map Drive
Use the command subst /d <virtual drive name:. The /d switch will delete the virtual mapped drive
subst /d x:
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