Renaming hundreds of files at once

[Potatoman]

Hi - As you know in XP, if you have a jpg called "folder", that will set the picture in thumbnail view. During a search, i accidently renamed hundreds of these jpg, now they are all called folder(1), folder(2), folder(3) etc... How can i rename them all to just folder without going through the whole lot? That would take me days! (And they are in seperate folders). Thanks, PM.

[LeMarchand]

Probably too late now (if you have rebooted or done other stuff), but sometimes you can right-click and "undo rename".

[stevie21]

I think "Irfanview" can do a "batch rename" and rename all of the files in a single folder in a certain way.
e.g. rename them all to image001.jpg, image002.jpg etc.

[j2buttonsw]

Can use bulk rename utility from here http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Main_Intro.php

[HandySize]

also recomend 1-4 rename
http://www.1-4a.com/rename/download.htm

run it in expert mode

[Mickey_Blue]

System Restore to the day previous to the accident .