The best SUBST alternative with tags, recycle bin and UAC support, and mounting virtual drives

Visual Sub provides you with a clean, simple, and non-interference user interface where you can manage all virtual and network drives at once. It solves four main issues with the built-in "SUBST" and "NET USE" commands: enabling editable drive labels, creating UAC drives for elevated applications, managing the recycle bin for deleted items, and restoring virtual drives after rebooting.

You can use virtual drives anywhere - simply use a single drive letter to easily access files in the project directory that you are currently working on. Download the visual entity now and try it out yourself!

Map Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox to a virtual drive

Although the names are the same, all three services are just creating a shared folder on your PC, not the actual drive. Visual Sub is the simplest solution to map these shared folders to virtual drives with custom labels and drive letters, so that you can access files more conveniently.

Add shared folder to Visual Sub to create virtual drive:

Why use Visual Sub?

Any experienced PC user can easily write batch files or scripts to create virtual drives using the built-in "SUBST" or "NET USE" commands and run them at startup. However, this method has some significant limitations under modern Windows operating systems. This is where visual essence comes in handy!

Virtual Drive Label

Firstly, you cannot define virtual drive labels using built-in commands, nor can you edit them in Windows Explorer. For virtual drives created using "SUBST", Windows always uses the label of the source path drive unless you use Visual Subst to resolve this issue for you.

Visual Sub allows you to easily define and edit virtual drive labels in a semi-automatic manner, using folder names as labels for newly created drives by default.

Virtual Drive Recycle Bin

If you have ever tried to delete files or folders from a virtual drive created using built-in commands, you will know that it always follows messages asking you to permanently delete them.

UAC driver for elevated applications

Virtual drives created using the "SUBST" command are not visible to elevated applications. For example, if you run a command prompt as an administrator and attempt to use a virtual drive created using a non promoted batch file, you will see that the drive does not exist for the promoted process.

Using Visual Content Management for Network Drivers

The network drive created using Visual Sub appears as a regular network drive in Windows Explorer, but you can enable the "UAC Drive" and "Recycle Bin" features in the same way as virtual drives.

Enable/disable virtual drives as needed

With Visual Sub, you can easily disable virtual drives that you don't currently need, and then enable them again with just one click. You can also disable or enable all drives at once from the context menu.