Too Many Development Tools: How to Organize Them with Virtual Disks!/technologies/test-and-measurement/b/blog/posts/too-many-development-tools-how-to-organize-them-with-virtual-disksIntroduction I recently bought a new laptop to replace an ancient one, and this time decided to put more thought into how I organized things. A problem for me is that I tend to install a lot of software tools and integrated development environments (en-USTelligent Community 12RE: Too Many Development Tools: How to Organize Them with Virtual Disks!https://community.element14.com/technologies/test-and-measurement/b/blog/posts/too-many-development-tools-how-to-organize-them-with-virtual-disksSun, 08 Mar 2026 21:11:35 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:bb0807bd-8580-4b09-88c7-7b8e04eb367bshabaz1<p>I wanted a simple graphical way to manage all the VHDs.. this app took 27 minutes to create and debug using AI! It seems to function. I will tweak it a bit further and then place it on GitHub.</p> <p>Clicking on the bullets will toggle between mounted and unmounted states (saves me having to launch Disk Management, or to remember the PowerShell commands..).</p> <p><img alt=" " height="338" src="/resized-image/__size/988x676/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-bb0807bd-8580-4b09-88c7-7b8e04eb367b/vhdx_2D00_manager_2D00_screenshot.png" width="494" /></p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=29563&AppID=13&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Too Many Development Tools: How to Organize Them with Virtual Disks!https://community.element14.com/technologies/test-and-measurement/b/blog/posts/too-many-development-tools-how-to-organize-them-with-virtual-disksSat, 07 Mar 2026 16:29:49 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:bb0807bd-8580-4b09-88c7-7b8e04eb367bobones0<p>Nice idea there, I did that with virtual machines but never thought of doing it at the OS level</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=29563&AppID=13&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Too Many Development Tools: How to Organize Them with Virtual Disks!https://community.element14.com/technologies/test-and-measurement/b/blog/posts/too-many-development-tools-how-to-organize-them-with-virtual-disksThu, 05 Mar 2026 20:20:11 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:bb0807bd-8580-4b09-88c7-7b8e04eb367bDAB0<p>Interesting idea.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=29563&AppID=13&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">RE: Too Many Development Tools: How to Organize Them with Virtual Disks!https://community.element14.com/technologies/test-and-measurement/b/blog/posts/too-many-development-tools-how-to-organize-them-with-virtual-disksWed, 04 Mar 2026 17:01:51 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:bb0807bd-8580-4b09-88c7-7b8e04eb367bdougw1<p>Definitely a problem. I was hoping to go the larger SSD route, but as you point out, memory prices have gone haywire. For now I am splitting tasks between 2 computers while waiting for memory prices to subside.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=29563&AppID=13&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">