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Hack 99 Rename Photos Automatically in Windows XP

What do you do when you have a whole folder
full of vacation photos with weird, camera-generated filenames that
don't make sense? This simple Windows XP hack will
give them all more meaningful names.

Unless you really have a lot of time on your hands, I
doubt you want to go through the massive folder that contains your
European vacation photos and rename them
Europe_1.jpg, Europe_2.jpg,
and so on down the line. If you're running Windows
XP on your computer, you don't have to do this.
Simply apply this hack to quickly apply a meaningful label to every
picture in the folder.

First, open the folder and select ViewThumbnails. Click on
the last picture in the folder you want to rename, hold down the
Shift key, and click on the first picture; this will select them all.

Right-click on the first photo and select Rename from the drop-down
menu, as shown in Figure 8-35.

Figure 8-35. Choose Rename from the right-click menu

Windows XP will highlight the filename for the first photo, enabling
you to give it a descriptive name. After you type in the name, click
on the white space outside of the photo and watch as Windows applies
the name with a sequential number to each picture in the folder, as
shown in Figure 8-36.

Figure 8-36. An entire folder of renamed folders

This is a quick way to manage all of those photo filenames that seem
to multiply on your computer's hard drive. To learn
more tricks for [Hack #49] .