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Renaming files in DOS

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Name: jurenic
Date: May 14, 2004 at 09:46:55 Pacific
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: P4 1.7 GHZ
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First of all, I would like to say Hi to everyone at Computing.net. I'm a DOS newbie, and I need some help regarding DOS commands. I need to rename a file in windows/system32 folder. How would I do this from DOS. Remember, I need step by step instructions, because I'm not so talented with DOS.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you could help me with this, it's sooo urgent!!



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Name: jboy
Date: May 14, 2004 at 09:58:40 Pacific
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The XP command interpreter only appears to be DOS - some commands are the same though

ren c:\windows\system32\oldfile.ext newfile.ext

.. is one way - more info here:

XP Command Reference

Generally, it's better to post XP questions in the XP forum.


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Name: SpiderMSN
Date: May 21, 2004 at 18:31:12 Pacific
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or you can use the MOVE command, which is pretty much the same thing as REN, except you can also put the file in a new place.


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