Virtual Drives Manager

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3708

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I am Baas · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:51 am **Posts:** 2572

There are two other portable tools by the same name that do exactly the same thing:

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Virtual Drive Manager (VDM) is a tiny 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 VDM is much more than SUBST, it is very easy to use with a good GUI interface and it can restore all virtual drives automatically on windows restarting.

http://www.linasoft.com/files/vdman102.zip (110 KB)

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Virtual Drives Manager freeware tool which lets you to define, redefine and delete the virtual drives in your file system.

The Virtual Drives (also known as MS-DOS device names) is the symbolic links, in the object name space in 32-bit versions of Windows, which points to the directories of your existing drives (hard, floppy, CD and so on). The code that converts an MS-DOS path into a corresponding path in 32-bit versions of Windows uses these symbolic links to map the virtual devices and drive letters.

http://www.appcontrols.com/software/dow ... Drives.zip (212 KB)

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3708

Cool! But this one has been updated in the last 12months, which I know isn't a big deal but the developer is still active.

webfork · **Posted:** Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:55 am

I recommend renaming the program to Leelu Virtual Drives Manager just to avoid confusion.

I checked into this a little out of curiosity and here's some of the fruits of my research to hopefully save others time:

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... this one has been updated in the last 12months, which I know isn't a big deal...

Actually its important, since the older one wasn't even tested to work on Windows XP, much less Windows 7.

Drive Manager (last updated 2006)
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=759

Virtual Drives Manager (last updated 2005)
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=118

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3708

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I recommend renaming the program to Leelu Virtual Drives Manager just to avoid confusion.

Done!

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3708

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infimum · **Joined:** Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:00 am **Posts:** 230

There are new tools available that seem to be portable.
http://leelusoft.blogspot.com/

Anyone interested?

webfork · **Posted:** Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:47 pm

infimum wrote:

There are new tools available that seem to be portable.
http://leelusoft.blogspot.com/

Anyone interested?

Yeah there's a few here I'll test...

Clipboard Rules tool looks interesting. If it could detect HTML, XML, GPG, etc. types of headers in copied text, I can see many uses. In fact I should suggest that for the next version of Text Editor Anywhere.
If I had more time I'd go through and screw up a bunch of zip files with a hex editor, then try to get the various different zip-fixing tools out there to repair it, including Zip2Fix.
I've been using PhiBar and Color Calculator to come up with attractive color palates, but its nice to see Color Calculator. (edit: this isn't a palate tool, see below)

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Clipboard Rules writes settings locally, looks portable. Unfortunately it responds only to very specific text bits, not just headers.
5FSize looks really useful for admins/testers trying to track down areas where the drive is writing information or is taking up too much space. We already have a lot of tools that do basically this, but this might speed things up a bit by only checking areas that are most likely to be misbehaving. I would love to see future versions of this with a fourth collumn showing changes in size between checks. Doesn't save any settings to the drive so you can't have it pre-set to check specific directories. You have to recheck the ones you want or just choose "select all".
Color Calculator its just a color picker and converter -- I misinterpreted that. However, it also saves no settings to the drive -- I believe its stealth but I didn't run a careful test.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3708

I really wish they would move away from the old fashioned blog reel, it's just so hard to navigate through their database, I would say opting for the static page(s) approach is tried and tested, it works! The blog should be used for posting updates and/or daily tech news.

webfork · **Posted:** Mon Dec 05, 2011 1:02 pm

guinness wrote:

I really wish they would move away from the old fashioned blog reel

Agreed. That's become increasingly common and its definitely not visitor-friendly.

webfork · **Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:40 am

http://leelusoft.blogspot.com

Warning about this software from Baas.

I am Baas · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:51 am **Posts:** 2572

webfork wrote:

http://leelusoft.blogspot.com

Warning about this software from Baas.

The warning concerns the installers only, not the portable .zip packages.

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