Windows 10: You can now batch rename files on Windows 10 with PowerToys

Back in the days of Windows 95, Microsoft offered PowerToys – a collection of useful tools and utilities to improve Windows experience. Earlier this year, Microsoft said that it was bringing PowerToys to Windows 10 and the app initially offered two features.

The latest version of PowerToys adds support for advanced bulk file renamer on Windows 10, allowing you to select multiple files and rename them with one click. Unlike the third-party apps, PowerToys is deeply integrated into Windows 10.

The bulk file renamer is called ‘PowerRename’ or Smart Rename and it comes with a straightforward interface, and the purpose is to enable easy batch renaming on Windows 10. At the same time, PowerToys app offers advanced features including the option to configure rules for batch rename of the files.

For example, you can customize the batch file renamer with extensions, case sensitive and others.



The feature is idle for managing large numbers of photos, music and video files. It offers a live preview of the changes and you can also roll back the changes that you made with one click.

For power users, the arrival of the new PowerRename will be the most interesting part but the same update also adds dark mode to appropriate screens.

PowerToys is not yet available in Microsoft Store, so you will have to grab it from Github.

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How to Batch Rename files ?

I have a lot of files I want to give names to. I already found a way to get names into a text I need. So all these names i have in text, I want to give to other files.

How do i do this in a batch process ?

Currently trying to learn FastStone Image viewer. Seems to be updated version of Resizer by the same company?
That has been useful for other batch processes for images . But I've yet to figure the batch naming options .

A different software I'm considering for this task is called Advanced Renamer .

Maybe I've become too slow through the years because :
I've been looking for the right tutorial that I can clearly understand and found none .
They seem to be out of my grasp .


Note : I currently use a bat file, that takes the names of other files I have in a folder and puts them into a text file.

( I'd prefer a one click Bat process ideally for this specific task ) .

So I'd be happy with a bat file that can also take those names in my text list
and apply them to files I want to rename in any given folder with those . If anyone knew how to do that.

It don't matter the order applied - as long as each file in the folder receives one name from the list.
The names I pulled are from images in a folder. The names are to be applied to a equal number of files ,
which is a different extension. so no worry about them having the same name. So just the names .




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I found this thread. But unsure how to apply it and its replies into the bat i need ?

stackoverflow rename-files-after-a-list-of-names



Update possible reference
for loop - Creating a batch file to rename TXT files based on content (removing inappropriate syntax) - Stack Overflow

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and yet another reference i need help understanding if its useful
windows - Generate file-folder list.txt file in a directory/subdirectory & rename list.txt to folder/subfolder name using dir & ren command in a batch file - Stack Overflow

 

Microsoft PowerToys 0.12 now available for Windows 10

Source: PowerToys v0.12 now available! - Windows Insider

 

Batch Files Knowledge Base

You can't just rename a batch file to .exe *Big Grin it wont ever work! =D and that "bench" is built into vista *Smile And you cant input text into another cmd window.. But if you want to open calc.exe from a batch file just type calc.exe *Smile