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By dividing up your hard drive into multiple partitions, you can effectively create multiple ‘virtual’ drives to store your files in. With the introduction of Libraries in Windows 7, the location of your personal files no longer has to sit in Windows’ predefined folders for convenience – now it’s possible to separate system files and personal data onto two separate partitions while being able to access them easily so you don’t get them mixed up. Windows doesn’t have a partition manager built in (or I don’t know of one), so thankfully there’s  Paragon Partition Manager 11 Free: a tool that can edit, create, and delete partitions on your hard drive.

Renaming individual files is pretty simple – right click, select “Rename”, and type in what you want the new name to be – and even modify the file extension if you wish. Dealing with a list of multiple files will take much longer – Windows doesn’t allow you to rename multiple files at once, just one at a time. Bulk Rename Utility is a free tool that allows you to rename a long list of files at once – and modify them by adding or removing strings at virtually any location in the file name, such as applying a numbering system to the prefix of all names.