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Kerry
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 Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject: How do I rename my process? (answered) |
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For example, if my process was weird.exe, how would I change it to cool.exe? Is it possible? or would I have to create another .ahk (in my .exe) and then compile it?
Sincerely,
Kerry
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BoBo
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Try this at your command line Start/Run
| Code: | | cmd /k ren weird.exe cool.exe |
If you are a member of "The Society of Anonymous Mousepushers" ("Anonymer Mausschubser") - try that at the Windows Explorer:
a) select the file 'weird.exe'
b) choose File/Rename
c) change the name to cool.exe
d) have a beer because you're not weird enough to rename files and that's really cool exe !
God bless you - F2! |
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Kerry
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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hahaha, well that worked 
Thank you very much |
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MegaManII
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| BoBo wrote: | Try this at your command line Start/Run
| Code: | | cmd /k ren weird.exe cool.exe |
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I've tried this with several processes. Windows tells me it can't find the files.
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/k ren firefox.exe cool.exe
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doesn't work.
Do you know what I'm doing wrong? |
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TDMedia
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:03 am Post subject: |
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First, /k is a cmd option, so you don't need it if you're already in a prompt.
You also need to be in the directory of the file you're trying to change the name of unless you specify an absolute path.
| Code: | | ren "C:\Folder\File.txt" "File2.txt" |
You can ONLY specify an absolute path for the file-in name; ren cannot move a file after renaming it.
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MegaManII
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| Cool. It works now. Kind of cool to be able to rename files through the command prompt |
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Stefan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:16 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Kind of cool to be able to rename files through the command prompt |
 ......   i am that old the cli became cool again?
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SKAN
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| Stefan wrote: | | i am that old the cli became cool again? |
I felt the same way |
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Hardeep
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Lexikos
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| Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:57 am Post subject: |
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| TDMedia wrote: | | You can ONLY specify an absolute path for the file-in name; ren cannot move a file after renaming it. |
Heh, I've never used 'ren'. I always use 'move', which can both move and rename a file. |
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