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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.

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.

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

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

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

Anyone interested?

• 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)

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

webfork wrote:http://leelusoft.blogspot.com

Warning about this software from Baas.