Renaming collection of Pictures (files)!
1- first select your pictures
2- right click on first picture and select rename
3- type your name
4- press Shift and click on the free space between first and second Picture
5- see result !

Very interesting, I'm going to test this soon. I always have to use a program to rename all the pictures in a directory.

Doesn't work for me any specific version of windows needed? I have w2kas.

What is supposed to happen? I could definately use a fast way of renaming large groups of files as I do it ALL THE TIME! Nothing happened for me. Also, you should probably better define "the free space between the first and second picture." I'm not sure what you are talking about with that.

just select all the pictures you want to rename, then hit "F2" (rename shorcut key), then type the filename e.g. "template", the file extensions i.e. ".gif, .jpg" whouldn't be rename and all the file will be rename from template.jpg to template (9).jpg for 10 files --> windows xp sp2

Nice little freeware program for doing that->

http://www.azheavymetal.com/~lupasrename/download.php

It's nice for the audiobooks I get with the "<really long site name> - <book title> - 1of14"
I can replace the site name with a blank, and change it to just "<book title> - 1 of 14"

So if you have those digital camera pictures or whatnot with filenames like J00001.jpg, J000002.jpg... you can get rid of the "J000" and have 01.jpg, 02.jpg...etc

yeah..it didn't work for me too...u must reply...

Ah, that's good to know although it's not exactly what I'm looking for. What does that freeware program do? It doesn't seem to have any of it's pages filled in yet on it's website. I'd like to have something that will eliminate all the tedius clicking to rename a ton of files (with unique names).

Unless I'm not following the instruction properly, this doesn't work in Windows XP.
The only time I can think of when windows appends (2) and so on to files are when you make a copy of it and paste it in the directory which contains the file that you are copying. It would then say "Copy of filename (2)" and so on.

In Linux, you can write a simple bash script to do this, I've had to do it before to rename a bunch of PHP and PNG files. Google around to find it.
But as for Windows, I don't think there is anything that allows you to do this unless it is third-party software.

I have Windows XP SP2 but I think with all updates, it could have even been SP3, but anyway, I just selected lots of pictures and pressed the shift Key and from the menu selected Rename, it only let me rename one top file, but when I did rename it, it did as it needed, all the files I've selected were renamed with the same name, only that the pictures were added with (1),(2),..(n) names.. It's the default for XP I guess, but I don't like this method, I remember I used a light program which could rename lots of files and with directories the way I wanted, it even had regular expressions, it really was a wonderful program, but I can't remember how it was called, it's freeware, it could be that it's called something like "rename, multiple rename tool" something with rename and I clean my music collection with it by name, for mp3 files it could even read or edit meta data