What's new in Visual Subst 5.8
Feb 19, 2024
- New language: Chinese Simplified
- Improved UAC drive creation and maintenance logic
- Fixed square shape and position of icon buttons
- Fixed an issue with initial window position on Windows 10
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 5.7 (Oct 4, 2023)
- New languages: Catalan, Spanish
- Recycle Bin is now visible for 32-bit apps on 64-bit Windows
- Installer runs the main exe non-elevated easier and faster
- Fixed an issue with saving settings from standard user account
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 5.6 (Sep 28, 2023)
- New language: Finnish
- Fixed an issue with displaying paths containing "&" symbol
- Updated digital signature for executable files
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 5.5 (Jun 27, 2023)
- Updated languages: Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil)
- Fixed random UAC prompts on startup for non-admin users
- Disabled UAC Drive and Recycle Bin for non-admin users
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 5.4 (Jun 2, 2023)
- New languages: Chinese (Traditional), Bulgarian
- Updated languages: Japanese, French, German, Portuguese
- 'System' theme renamed to 'Classic', 'Custom Frame' to 'Frame Theme'
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 5.3 (Apr 20, 2023)
- New language files: French, Hungarian
- Fixed non-translated strings in the About dialog
- Some minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 5.2 (Apr 8, 2023)
- New language files: Italian, Portuguese (Brazil)
- Installer now creates only one shortcut in startmenu folder
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 5.1 (Mar 30, 2023)
- Updated languages: German, Japanese, Slovenian
- Changed default theme for Windows 7 to Light with Themed Frame
- Fixed blurry task dialog icon (About, Trial Reminder dialogs)
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 5.0 (Mar 15, 2023)
- New UI in Windows 11 style with Auto Dark Mode
- UAC option can be turned on/off for each drive separately
- Added Recycle Bin for virtual and network drives
- Added Enable/Disable and Remove buttons to the drive list
- Added "Enable All", "Disable All" and "Remove All" commands
- Added "Group By Type" and "Always On Top" commands
- Show tray icon and run Visual Subst in the background
- Larger "Segoe UI" font for dialogs and messages
- Many other minor changes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 4.2 (Nov 13, 2022)
- Added new language: Polish
- Fixed drop down menu color on Windows 11
- Fixed width of task dialogs on Windows 7
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 4.1 (Sep 14, 2022)
- Updated languages: German, Slovenian
- Virtual drive's list font updated to Segoe UI
- Some minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 4.0 (May 15, 2022)
- Added Collapse-Expand button to show/hide options
- Added /NOMSG argument to open VS without any messages
- Fixed an issue with activating VS when switching languages
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 3.9 (Jan 15, 2021)
- New language: French
- Double-click opens the selected drive now
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 3.8 (Sep 22, 2020)
- New language: Korean
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 3.7 (Jul 11, 2020)
- Fixed an error message on virtual drive deletion
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 3.6 (May 9, 2020)
- Fixed a typo in the main window title
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 3.5 (Apr 28, 2020)
- Visual Subst is translated into 12 languages now (many thanks to all translators)
- New languages: Czech, Chinese (installer)
- Executables signed with both SHA1 and SHA256 certificates
- Fixed an error message when creating network drives
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 3.4 (Apr 6, 2020)
- New languages: Farsi, Spanish
- Updated digital signature for executable files
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 3.3 (Mar 10, 2020)
- New languages: Arabic, Italian
- Added command line switch to suppress the welcome message (/NOWELCOME)
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 3.2 (Feb 23, 2020)
- New languages: German, Slovenian (installer)
- Added ability to create virtual drives for longer paths
- Fixed a non-translated error message
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 3.1 (Feb 3, 2020)
- New languages: Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovenian
- Fixed installer for Surface Pro X and ARM64 architecture
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 3.0 (Jan 21, 2020)
- Multilingual user interface (see lang_Translation.txt)
- Fixed drive labels when "Create elevated drives" is disabled
- Prompt to fix drive labels under standard user account
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 2.9 (Nov 19, 2019)
- Fixed "How It Works" link in the Help menu
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 2.8 (Sep 25, 2019)
- Installer can copy the license file and activate Visual Subst
- Fixed description of the main executable for 64-bit version
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 2.7 (Aug 14, 2019)
- Renamed "autostart" and "create elevated drives" options
- "Create elevated drives" option is disabled by default for standard users
- Fixed errors with network drives when "manage network drives" is disabled
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 2.5 (Jul 30, 2019)
- Added option "Hide drives created with other software"
- Fixed an issue with creating elevated network drives
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 2.4 (Jul 29, 2019)
- Added ability to manage network drives with Visual Subst
- Added option "Bypass UAC to create elevated drives"
- Added "Remove All" command to remove all drives at once
- Main window position is restored now after restart
- Fixed title of error messages and dialog boxes
- Fixed an issue with removing drives from command line
- Some other minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 2.3 (Jul 13, 2019)
- Number of virtual drives is shown in window title now
- Fixed size and arrangement of some controls and dialogs
New in Visual Subst 2.2 (Jun 7, 2019)
- Added drive change notifications for Windows Explorer
- Improved creation and synchronization of elevated drives
- Fixed empty label text when pressing Save button
- Some other minor bugfixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 2.1 (Apr 22, 2019)
- Added /? or /HELP command line switch
- Some minor bug fixes and improvements
New in Visual Subst 2.0 (Apr 5, 2019)
- Visual Subst solves three main issues with the built-in 'subst' command: it seamlessly creates drives for elevated applications, adds editable drive labels and restores drives after reboots. Also, Visual Subst makes it easier to create, edit and remove virtual drives in a GUI way.
- UAC and elevated applications:
- Visual Subst seamlessly creates virtual drives for elevated applications duplicating the drives created for the standard user. It bypasses UAC prompts using the same technique as Hidden Start with /NOUAC switch making no distraction to the user.
- Virtual drive labels:
- Drive labels are useful if you often use Windows Explorer. Visual Subst allows you to define and edit virtual drive labels easily.
- Restoring drives after restart:
- Visual Subst saves the list of virtual drives and loads it on the system startup. No additional action required – just make sure that “Create virtual drives on system startup” option is enabled.
New in Visual Subst 1.0.6 (Apr 29, 2009)
- Fixed an error message if drive letter is used by another program