Supercharge your file renaming tasks with WildRename

While Windows lets you rename multiple files at once by selecting a group of documents with your mouse and clicking rename, you don't have a lot of control over the process. What if you want each file to keep its original name, but you want to add a prefix. Or what if you want to change all of the characters from upper case to lower case? Windows doesn't give you that option, but the free Windows utility WildRename does.

WildRename comes in a small, executable package, meaning you there's nothing to install on your PC, and you can even run the application from a USB flash drive. Once it's up and running you can navigate to the directory of your choice and select from a list of possible actions to perform, including:

• Changing the case
• Add or remove characters
  
• Replace strings of characters
• Add text counters to a series, such as _001

There's also a handy simulation mode which lets you preview the changes before writing them to your actual documents.

[via GHacks]

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