As well as my C: drive, I have a large (2Tb) Z: drive on my PC. I then use the "subst" command (using XSubst as the GUI) to create virtual drives pointing to various directories on Z:. For example, P: actually points to Z:\PHOTOGRAPHS, M: points to Z:\MUSIC and O: points to Z:\DOWNLOAD.
I can do everything to the files in these virtual drives EXCEPT execute them. So I can copy, paste, edit, change permissions, etc, but when I try to "Open" or "Run as Administrator" a .EXE, I get the error message "The specified path does not exist. Check the path and try again."
The above configuration worked fine under Windows 7, but I can't understand why it doesn't work under 8.1, especially as the error message makes no sense.
Any help appreciated!
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Philip
I can do everything to the files in these virtual drives EXCEPT execute them. So I can copy, paste, edit, change permissions, etc, but when I try to "Open" or "Run as Administrator" a .EXE, I get the error message "The specified path does not exist. Check the path and try again."
The above configuration worked fine under Windows 7, but I can't understand why it doesn't work under 8.1, especially as the error message makes no sense.
Any help appreciated!
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Philip
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 10 Pro 10586
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS8700
- CPU
- i7-4770 3.40GHz
- Motherboard
- Dell
- Memory
- 12Gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA GTX 650 Ti
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Hanns-G HG281D (dual)
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200
- Hard Drives
- 240Gb M-SATA SSD and 2Tb 7200rpm Hard Drive.
- Keyboard
- Logitech
- Mouse
- Logitech trackball
- Internet Speed
- 78Mb/s (on a good day!)
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Microsoft