You boot up your computer and—bam!—Windows starts checking a drive for errors.
Great… unless you’re in a rush and suddenly watching a countdown timer like it’s Y2K.
Want to take control of those automatic disk checks? Meet your new friend: CHKNTFS.
Ever wish you could turn a long, annoying folder path into its own drive letter — instantly?
Good news: Windows has had a secret command for that since the stone age (aka DOS). It’s called SUBST, and it lets you create a virtual drive letter for any local folder. Think of it as a symbolic link’s chill, drive-mapping cousin.
Ever wish you could trick Windows into thinking your files and folders are somewhere they’re not — without copying a single byte? 😏
Whether you’re syncing game saves to the cloud, taming unruly config files, or just want your OS to behave a bit more like Linux, you’re in the right place.
In this guide, we’ll dive into mklink, one of the most underrated (and wildly useful) tools in Windows.
No fluff — just real examples, practical tips, and the occasional nerdy grin.
Let’s link stuff like pros.
Have you ever wanted to hide a message in plain sight? Or maybe just look super cool using the command line like a digital ninja? 😎 In this post, I’ll show you how to encode and decode files using the Windows command line — no extra software required!
We’re not doing anything fancy like encryption here — we’re just encoding data using a format called Base64. It’s a neat way to turn your files into a scrambled-looking format that’s still perfectly reversible.
Let’s jump right in!
