XP's F2 rename

Is there any way to change how XP names multiple files when you do an F2 rename? (Or "right clicking, Rename" multiple files, for that matter.) For example if I highlighted several files:

summervacation96
summervacation97
summervacation98
summervacation99

and chose to rename them to "summervacation0"

then I'd end up with:

summervacation0 (1)
summervacation0 (2)
summervacation0 (3)
summervacation0 (4)

My question is, is there any way to edit the registry or anything else to change what it appends onto multipe files? So instead appending ***(#) to each file, it might change it to ***1 so you'd end up with:

summervacation01
summervacation02
summervacation03
summervacation04

So, any way to do this?

m19

 

easiest way to do this kind of thing is by using a program like BatchRN (which can be found here http://www.prismaticsoftware.com/Utility/Utility.html )

and using autonumbering

 

Ahh ok, thanks sushi, I wasn't aware there were such apps. I'll give it a shot.

m19