Windows 10: Windows 10 and Bulk Rename Utility: opening a file

Hi. Our genealogical society digitizes books. We end up with a folder of jpg images that we need to rename with the Bulk Rename Utility. On my home computer, with the rename utility program open, I can double click or right click -> open on a file name and the image appears imposed on top of the utility program. That's the way it is meant to work. However, on my office computer if I try to open a file with the rename utility open, the image becomes an icon on my taskbar.Both computers are very similar in what applications are installed and are up to date with Windows 10. Can you sug

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Modification of file names in bulk

Quick search for
'best bulk rename utility' will point you to some options.

9 Freeware To Batch Rename Multiple Files in Windows
Introduction - Bulk Rename Utility

 

File renamer utility?

Is there a good file renamer utility that's safe to use anyone could recommend? I used to use Gizmo's list for app suggestions but this particular application has not been reviewed in several years, so I don't know if those apps are safe to use or not.

I have many files I need to rename but keep the individuality of the names. For instance, I need to rename all files in a particular folder from yyyy.mm.pdf to AMEXyyyy.mm.pdf keeping the yyyy.mm data unique. Another folder has a ton of files that need to be renamed from yyyy.mm.pdf to Visayyyy.mm.pdf.

I had all this figured out a month or so back but have already forgotten how I did it using an arcane script in either cmd prompt or powershell, I can't remember which. And now I'm drawing a blank how to do it. Again. smh. So I thought a nice freeware file renamer might help me out.