I recently upgraded from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Ultimate. Now I cant change the artist, album, genre, etc. I. Batch File Rename with Windows Power. Shell. Microsoft included a batch rename feature in the latest version of Windows allowing you to select multiple files, right click on one and select rename. All of the selected files will be renamed with the name you provided and a number. This functionality works well for basic files but does not provide any flexibility in exactly how the files are numbered and also does not allow the file extension to be changed. Windows Power. Shell, which is included in Windows starting with Vista and 2. Server and available for XP, provides the raw tools to allow you to perform batch file renames. The trick is to pipe the output of one command into another command allowing you to connect the functionality to produce a useful outcome. The two Power. Shell commands needed for batch file renaming are dir which is an alias for get childitem and rename item. To get started I suggest copying all the files you need to rename to a separate directory. Then, open up Windows Power. Windows wont allow you to modify files that open programs have locked. Installing Adobe Acrobat Pro On Terminal Server. Got a bunch of files you want to rename, but dont want to go through them each one by one Windows provides more ways to do this than you may realize. Shell and navigate to the directory with the CD command. Depending on how you want to rename the files there are a few different techniques Changing the File Extension of all. Dir. jpeg rename item newname  . In the above example the represents each item passed to the rename item command via the pipe from the dir command. Appending a File Extension Dir rename item newname  . Name. jpg File Rename with Customizable Increasing Number. Dir jpg For. Each Object  begin count1   process rename item New. Name imagecount. In the example we needed to use an additional command known as foreach object that allows you to set a variable our counter before looping through each file in the directory and then do an action for each item. The result of the above example are files named image.