Windows 10: How do I rename mixed JPG and MOV files into one numerical sequence

I have several folders of mixed photos and videos. Currently they’re manually sorted as I want them, in the order of their creation regardless of filetype (IMG or MOV). If I sort them temporarily on another column (e.g. Comments or Tags) then I have no way of returning to the current sort because IMG and MOV files don’t share a common creation date metadata field, and some files have no date metadata at all. I want to batch rename them so that the current sorting can be recovered by sorting on name. Unfortunately, when I do a batch rename in File Explorer it renames the files sequentially within each filetype, for example a very small selection of my current files might look like this (the numbers in square brackets aren’t part of the name, they’re to show how the order changes):

IMG_6345.JPG [1]
IMG_6347.JPG [2]
IMG_4213.MOV [3]
IMG_4004.MOV [4]
IMG_6221.JPG [5]

I selected those five files, right clicked the top one, selected Rename and typed “2018-08-07 iPhone” expecting them to be renamed as follows, retaining their existing positions in the list:

2018-08-07 iPhone (1).JPG [1]
2018-08-07 iPhone (2).JPG [2]
2018-08-07 iPhone (3).MOV [3]
2018-08-07 iPhone (4).MOV [4]
2018-08-07 iPhone (5).JPG [5]

But the files were renamed and numbered by type, so what I got back was:

2018-08-07 iPhone (1).JPG [1]
2018-08-07 iPhone (2).JPG [2]
2018-08-07 iPhone (3).JPG [5]
2018-08-07 iPhone (1).MOV [3]
2018-08-07 iPhone (2).MOV [4]

When I then sorted by Name I got:

2018-08-07 iPhone (1).JPG [1]
2018-08-07 iPhone (1).MOV [3]
2018-08-07 iPhone (2).JPG [2]
2018-08-07 iPhone (2).MOV [4]
2018-08-07 iPhone (3).JPG [5]

Is there any way to rename the files sequentially without the file extension modifying the process?

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Numerical Sorting in File Explorer - Change the Collating Sequence


I was checking out the collating sequence on Windows 7 for a friend and found this post on SevenForums:

Numerical Sorting in Windows Explorer - Enable or Disable - Windows 7 Help Forums

Curious, I decided to give it a go on W10 even though this computer did not have the full key in the registry. I was not especially brave since I had saved a full image this morning. (You do have to reboot between changes for them to take effect.)

I created 8 files numbered 01, 1, 02, 2, 4, 15, 25, and 45. Then I downloaded the .reg files from that web site and applied them to see what happens. It appears W10 changed the default. It also appears the changes are still valid choices.

Anyway, W10 default is definitely with numeric sort enabled. As I created them, they came out in 01, 1, 02, 2, 4, 15, 25, and 45. (I don't know if the leading 0 is disregarded completely and might sort differently at some times, but they are in true numeric sequence since lead 0s should be disregarded.)

I ran the one to enable them first since disabled was the W7 default, and nothing changed. That reinforced that the defaults have been switched.

Then I ran the one to disable the numeric sort and the sequence changed to 01, 02, 1, 15, 2, 25, 4, 45. Basically straight ASCII collating sequence, not the numeric sequence Windows provides.

Anyway, I thought someone might be interested, and perhaps the equivalent information could be added to the Tutorials for W10 (reversing the default spec).

(edited to clean up mixed fonts)