vSubst Alternatives

vSubst is described as 'Creates drive-letters for any folders on your harddisk. Useful to create virtual drives e.g. on laptops' and is an app. There are five alternatives to vSubst for Windows. The best vSubst alternative is Visual Subst, which is free. Other great apps like vSubst are USBDLM, Extra subst, Psubst and Win Subst.

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  1. Visual Subst icon
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    Visual Subst is a small tool that allows you to associate the most accessed directories with virtual drives. It uses the same API similar to the console subst utility, but makes it easier to create and remove virtual drives in a GUI way.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Visual Subst is the most popular Windows alternative to vSubst.

    • Visual Subst is the most popular free alternative to vSubst.

    • Visual Subst is Freemium and ProprietaryvSubst is Free and Proprietary
  2. USBDLM icon
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    Persistent USB thumbdrive mapping: USBDLM is a Windows service, that gives control over Window's drive letter assignment for USB drives. Running as service makes it independent of the logged on user's privileges, so there is no need to give the users the privilege to chan.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Extra Subst – program designed to make access to frequently used folders of your computer easier. It is also used to create, edit and remove virtual drives of your computer. Extra Subst creates virtual drives on the basis of selected folders.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Extra subst is the most popular commercial alternative to vSubst.

    • Extra subst is Paid and ProprietaryvSubst is Free and Proprietary
  4.  Like
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    Associates a path with a drive letter and extends the standard SUBST command allowing to create persistent substituted drives between startups.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Psubst is the most popular Open Source alternative to vSubst.

    • Psubst is Free and Open SourcevSubst is Free and Proprietary
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    Win Subst is a free tool for Windows to substitute a drive letter to a local folder on the same computer, just like the old DOS subst command.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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