Automating file renaming in Windows 7 - not a simple sequence

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fatw41

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I have many clients who I produce some media content for. The manual process involves first creating a folder for each client, creating various standard pictures with standard names that correspond to various locations or themes (teacher, London, Chinese, restaurant etc.) I then use these pictures to create picture slideshows - more than 30 per client. Each slideshow arranges the pictures in a unique order and in fact does not necessarily make use of all the pictures. Some pictures are repeated. To do this what I usually do is copy the required pictures to a new sub-folder and rename each one. The end result might be something like this:

Slideshow 1
teacher55
London1
London2
London3
Chinese

Slideshow 2
restaurant
Chinese
London1
Chinese2

Slideshow 3
London1
London2
teacher
Chinese

Finally I move these pictures to Windows movie maker and create the final "product"

Yikes, hope I have not confused anyone.

So my question is would it be possible to automate this process? I think some sort of programming would be able to do the trick, but I'm not sure what sort of programming language can run such tasks on Windows 7 - or maybe this just isn't possible?

Basically I need a program to go into a specified folder, pull various pictures according to their names, create a new folder and paste the RENAMED pictures in this folder.

Any thoughts on how to achieve this? I'd gladly be willing to pay someone to put together some working code for me.

Thanks for reading!
 
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Tsaparang

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I suggest to take a look at Breezesys Downloader Pro. It's intended for photographers who need to rename files as they're downloaded from memory cards to a computer. Once you've learned to configure the command line switches, it can be used to rename files already stored on a computer and is a very sophisticated program. Cost is $25. If you have any queries, you can contact the author of the program.
 
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fatw41

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@Tsaparang thanks. I'm still looking at it, but something I possibly neglected to mention is that sometimes I need the same picture multiple times in a slideshow and not sure if the software you recommended can achieve this. I'll dig deeper, but would still appreciate further guidance.
 
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