Note: To learn where settings are stored, please read the bottom of this page.

Settings :: General

Shell Integration

Shell Integration means that you can access Flash Renamer functions directly from Windows Explorer. When you right click on files or folders you will see a Flash Renamer menu, from which you can quickly access functions or start the program. Very handy!

• Do nothing - Turns off the shell integration.
  
  
• Show "Start Flash Renamer" (only folders only) - This will show a single menu item that allows you to start Flash Renamer directly from the selected folder. (This is the "old" shell extenstion option in previous versions of Flash Renamer.)
  
  
• Show Flash Renamer menu - This will show a full menu with all available options. Recommended. (Example)

  Note 1: When using Windows Vista (or NT4/2000/XP with limited access, but not 9x/Me), these options may require privelidges to write to the registry. Guest privelidges will not work. In Vista there is an option to "Run as Administrator" if you right click on application that you can use.

  Note 2: When using the third option (the full menu), files will be processed in the order that Windows Explorer sends them to Flash Renamer. It is important to understand that a selection of files in Windows Explorer also marks a file as the primary file. The primary file is the file that you right click on to bring up the menu. This file will alwasy be sent to Flash Renamer first. After this, the rest of the selected files are sent in correct order. I recommend that you always right click on the top-most file to avoid problems with this slightly weird behaviour of Windows Explorer...

Privacy

• Open last folder at startup - If this is checked, Flash Renamer will at startup automatically go to the last folder you worked in.
  
  
• Clear path history on exit - The path history contains the 20 last visited folder. If you are concerned about privacy you can enable this option.
  
  
• Keep log file - If this is enabled, Flash Renamer will write down all filename changes to a log file.

Misc.

• Warn about chaning file extensions. - Since changing the file extension may cause files to not open correctly, Flash Renamer normally gives a warning when you attempt to do this. If you do not know what a file extension is, I do not recommend turning this option off, nor changing any file extensions!

• Only rename selected - Only rename the files that are selected. Otherwise, all listed files will be renamed.

• Rename all if nothing is selected. - If 'only rename selected' is on and no files are selected, all files will be renamed anyway if this is on. Having both these options turned on is the most intuitive way of working.

Settings :: Interface 1

File List

• Show Guidelines - Guidelines helps you see the list content more clearly.
  
  
• Full Row Select - Normally you must click on the filename to select it. This option allows you to click anywhere on the row to select the file.
  
  
• Draw gray background on every other row - Makes it easier to follow the list rows across the screen.
  
  
• Columns - Here you can enable addition columns if you want more information about your files. By default the three columns "Filename", "Preview" and "Path" are on.
  
  

Misc.

• Keep file order after execution - If you want the program to remember the order of the files after execution you can mark this option. Note that this can be quite slow if you have more that a couple of hundred files. If you don't move any files around the program will however not try to re-order them, so normally you can have this option turned on without any slowdowns.
  
  
• Always show folder icons - Checking this option will allow you to navigate your harddrive using the listview even if folders are not selected to be processed. Only works in file browser mode.
  
  

Settings :: Interface 2

System Icons & Thumbnails

• Enable system icons & thumbnails - Each registered filetype in Windows has an icon associated with it. Flash Renamer can read this icon and show it in the file lists, making it look just like Windows Explorer. It can also read images and show them as thumbnails. If you uncheck this options, a default icon will be used instead. There are two reasons why you would want to do this: 1) To speed up folder listings. 2) Each unique icon & thumbnail loaded into Flash Renamer takes up system resources. In Windows 95/98 & Me, system resources are limited. If your system resources are very low, you should turn system icons off. In Windows NT/2000/XP this limitation does not exists.
  
  
• Read folder icons - Like files, folders can also have different icons. But where files with the same extension will share the same icon image, each folder is unique and will have it's own icon. The memory where Flash Renamer stores the icons and thumbnails is limited, and when working with many folders this memory can sometimes be filled up. Disabling this option will reduces the risk of running out of image memory & system resources when having lots of folders, and also make the folder listing go a little bit faster.
  
  
• Add black border to thumbnails - This option adds a nice looking black border to each thumbnail.
  
  
• Thumbnail Size - Choose desired size to be used for displaying thumbnails.
  
  

Rename Window

• Show log - If you don't want to see the list of files that are renamed, uncheck this box.
  
  
• Show full path in log - This can be useful if you are saving the log and want to know exactly what happened. Note: The global log always stores full paths.
  
  
• Automaticall close log window after execution - If you think it's annoying to have to close the log window by hand after each execution you can mark this option and the program will do it for you!
  
  
• Don't close if an error occured - To make sure that you don't miss when error occur, enable this.

Settings :: File System

Pattern Mask

• Apply to Files / Folders - With the pattern mask you can decide which files and folders to process. For example *.jpg will only process files with an jpg extension. The default *.* will processes all files. Here in the settings window you can choose if the pattern should affect files or folders, or both.
  
  Note: You edit the pattern mask itself in the main window at the top right, next to the path.
  
  
• Reset to *.* at startup - The file patters determines what kind of files are to be listed. Usually it is set to *.* which lists all files, but sometimes you may want to change it to e.g. *.jpg or similar. It is a common mistake to forget resetting it afterwards, and when you start it up again you can't figure out why Flash Renamer is not listing all files. This options fixes that problem for you!

File Attributes

Here you can choose if Flash Renamer should include files & folders with certain attributes set, when using file browser mode. By defualt, Flash Renamer will include write protected files & folders, but not System or Hidden.

Misc.

• Hide System Folders - This option will prevent Flash Renamer to work on certain folders, such as the windows folder (eg "c:\windows") or your program folder (eg "c:\program files"). You should not use Flash Renamer on your system folders unless you know exactly what you are doing.
  
  
• Uncheck "Subfolders" at startup - Listing subfolders can be very slow, due to the large amount of files they can contain. This security option will always turn off the subfolder feature, thus reducing the risk of painfully long startup times.

Settings :: Casing Exceptions

Exceptions are words that should always be spelled with a certain case. This is typically used for abbreviations, such a DJ and CD. Also roman numbers, eg III should always be spelled with large letters. Here you can create a list of such words. The list is used by the Casing function.

Settings :: Batch Replace

Batch replace works the same way as Find & Replace, but you can run several replaces in one go! From the settings window you can manage the list of replace commands, by adding, deleting or editing the commands. You can also move them up of down in the list, which can be useful if you want certain commands to be executed before others. The batch replace is executed from the first item and them stepping down in the list.

Settings :: Advanced Settings

In this list you will find various options and tweaks that change the way Flash Renamer behaves. Most users will never need to modify these settings, but power users are given the ability to tweak Flash Renamer into perfection!

• You must press the "Set" button in order to save any changes.

• Most of these settings require that you restart Flash Renamer in order to fully work.