The only problem with these methods is that you can only rename files one by one. Windows PowerShell also offers a renaming cmdlet. You can rename files from your Windows/File Explorer or via MS DOS (command prompt). Windows does provide ways of renaming your files. The most widely used property for renaming files is the ‘date created’ or ‘date modified’ property. Most of the time this files are renamed by the utility with numbers according to how they were found if you so choose, you can rename these files using their properties. A common case is where a user has recovered data using a recovery utility. Common properties are ‘Date created,’ ‘Date modified,’ ‘Author,’ ‘Title’ among others tags.

Using the file properties are some of the best ways to rename your files. It will probably take you ages to rename these files, so what you need is a way to bulk rename or batch rename your files. Sometimes you have hundreds of files that you need to rename in a certain format.

Bulk file rename tool