Rename files as a batch

5 November 2009

In my last post, I talked about a nifty little program called Restoration. One thing I didn’t mention, was that the program had changed the first letter of most of the restored files to $. Most of the files we restored were photos, and I knew that all of these started with the letter I.
 
I wanted to make sure that the filenames of all of the files were correct keeping in mind how the OS sorts the files. However, there were 220 of them, and renaming them manually would be a hassle.
 
I remembered that I had at one point used a nifty little program called A.F.5 Rename your files (can be found here), which renamed a batch of files without a hitch.
 

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Being one to muck about quite a bit with my computers, my wireless network connection is now called “Wireless Network Connection 5″, like so:
 
Wireless Network Connection 5
 
Annoying though it may be, it is, however, really easy to remedy. Here’s how:
 

  • Right-click the Wireless Network Connection, and select “Rename”
  • Rename

  • Call it whatever you’d like, and hit enter. I’ve called mine WLAN:
  • WLAN

 
This is really simple to do, and works flawlessly for both wired and wireless network connections. Enjoy!