Re: Drive Letter as a folder

From: Dennis Allen (dennis_at_dennisallen.com)
Date: 04/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 19:07:01 -0400

But I want the whole system to recognize them. I know you can define a
drive as a folder. Can't you define a folder as a drive? ...Dennis

"David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
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When you start a dos or Win 3.11 program they'll be executed then. Put them
in a shortcut and drag them to the startup folder. 

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"Dennis Allen" <dennis@dennisallen.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.  Just switching over to a new XP Pro machine.  I understnad there is
no
> more autoexec.bat.  I tried to add the following to
> c:\winnt\system32\autoexec.nt:
>
> subst i: c:\network
> subst j: c:\test
> subst k: c:\dennis
>
>
> I rebooted, but nothing happened.  Could someone tell me where I could add
> these commands?  Or is there another way to define drive letters as
folders?
>
>

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