How to make your favorite folder easily accessible in Windows dialog boxes

Posted by Vic Laurie
February 9, 2006

A number of common Windows tasks use a dialog box listing the folders that are present on a computer. Examples are the file operations “Copy” and “Save As”. If you have a favorite folder that you often use, it is convenient to have it readily available in the dialog box. However, most folders require several clicks to make them visible in the list. Drives are always listed at or near the top of the tree in the list and you can use an old trick to assign a drive letter to your favorite folder. Then your folder will be easily accessed in dialog boxes. The method used to assign a drive letter to a folder is the old command line application “subst” and the procedure is discussed here. However, many average PC users are not happy about using the command line so I have written a script that uses the familiar Windows GUI. It makes assigning a drive letter to a folder very easy. The free script is at http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/scripts2.htm.

Computer management, File management

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