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Installing it at HKEY_CURRENT_USER has the benefit of having different setups for each user. I prefer to stick the user space setup as long as a system service dose not depend on the device.

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[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun]

"F Drive"="subst F: D:\mount\db"

"G Drive"="subst G: D:\mount\log"

Source: http://networkadminkb.com/KB/a446/how-to-use-drive-letters-mount-points-the-same-disk-drive.aspx

There's an answer in the page you linked to. You don't need the third party tool, you can do it with a simple registry entry, as detailed on that page.

Create a text file named 'mapdrive.reg' with these contents:

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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerDOS Devices] 

"Z:"="\??\C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Shared Documents" 

Then should just be able to double-click on it to set up, no 3rd party tools needed.

I found this because I was looking for an improvement over my startup subst scripts - they worked OK, but sometimes executed after folders crashed on startup because my drive wasn't yet mapped.

First, I edited the registry, but was unable to get it to work. However, I did come across this alternative, which although it doesn't use subst does answer for me the question, "How to make SUBST mapping persistent across reboots?" Don't use subst... (insert appropriate 'computerName' and 'pathName'):

net use u: "\computerNamec$pathName" /persistent:yes

I adapted this from Hank Arnold's suggestion at this discussion of mapping local drives. I had guessed that \myComputerNamec might work, but I didn't know to apply the $.

Before you try the "net use" command, try to navigate to

\computerNamec$

Drop a batch file in your Startup folder that does all the SUBSTs that you want to do.

Since the original PSubst has some limitations and seems to be concluded by the author, I had to code a new version for my needs, fixing some problems and adding functionality and flexibility.

Check here for PSubst version 3 batch file

https://github.com/cyberponk/psubst

Compatible with Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2012

Note:
This work has no intention of demeriting the original author and only came to existence because of real necessity, as follows:

• As a newtork admin I have the constant need for SUBST´ing network drives and fiddling with different network users.




• As not everyone is a Windows expert, i figured the automatic admin elevation with error handling would help, based on coments I read through the web.




• As some people struggled with the arguments order, I figured it would be best for the script to work with arguments in any order.

I can´t recall of every added functionality, but every inclusion was done purely by necessity. I am sharing the code so that others may not encounter the troubles I had. By this there is no intention other than sharing and helping.

Actually, the PSUBST tool joins two different ways of creation of substituted drives in Windows. If you want to have persistent drives between startups then you can run this tool once per each drive that you need. Another way is to use the method suggested by "davr". the PSUBST tool just makes the same but allows to make it in the easier way.

I like Visual Subst

Makes things easy