Ant Renamer is a free program that makes easier the renaming of lots of files and folders by using specified settings.

• It supports Unicode names.
• This program can rename large amounts of files and folders in few clicks.
• It only modifies files/folders names.
• Changing extension.
• Replacing character strings by others.
• Inserting a character string.
• Moving characters.
• Deleting several characters.
• Enumeration.
• Name creation with mp3′s Tag (ID v1.1).
• Name creation with file’s last modified date and time.
• Random names creation.
• Case change (uppercase, lowercase, first letter of each word in uppercase, …).
• Take names from a list/file.
• Use of EXIF info.
• Regular expressions.
• Available in 11 languages : English (default), Belarusian, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Czech, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish.

Strengths

• Batch renaming.
• Runs on all current versions of windows.
• Very quick.
• Free.
• A variety of options when renaming files.
• Can include or exclude the extension in operations.

Weaknesses

• Only one level of undo.

Download Ant Renamer via http://www.antp.be

Ant Renamer is copyrighted by Antoine Potten and I make no claim that I have anything to do with it or want any money because of it. I just think it is a great program and you should use it.

Working of several dozen projects a year, I need a way to archive older files to a DVD but still find them quickly when I need them again. Here is a little trick that I have put into practice. I find it is useful when coming to a new project or back to one after a lengthy absence.

After burning a DVD for archiving older project files, I make a text file with the name of every file on that disk. That way I can do a search in the text document and quickly see which disk to pull out for the file I need.

Here is the process: In the Start Menu, go to Run and type “cmd”. Browse to the directory you want to index, say the D drive (type d:). Then type “dir /s >> document.txt” (the “/s” will get all sub folders too, if you don’t want this, just leave it off).

This will list everything into a new text document named “document.txt” There are other options you can do to this, such as “dir /s /b >> document.txt” which will list only the filename, none of the date modified or size information. For more on these options, see Microsoft’s Documentation (or type “dir /?”).

If you are getting Windows Defender Error Message 0x800106ba when starting XP, try opening your services (select Run in the Start Menu and type services.msc) and starting Windows Defender manually.

If this does not work, you might get Error 0x80071b90. If this is the case, you can fix this by downloading the newest version from Microsoft. This should fix everything up nicely. Microsoft Update.

This (hopefully) helpful item was learned here.

This is one of those simple things that I can never remember. Sometimes some of your files appear blue, they aren’t sad, this just means they are NTFS compressed. The green ones aren’t seasick, just encrypted.

To turn all this nonsense off, in Explorer click Tools and Folder Options… Click on the View tab. Checking/unchecking the third option from the bottom (Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color) will toggle these colors.