Lightroom or Bridge, which is best to change 20m photo names

I would like to completely change the naming structure of approximately 20,000 images and would like to hear opinions on which program, Lightroom or Bridge, to use and if there are any precautions with either program that I should be aware of.

Ray, I have LR and CS4. In the last few days I've tried to use Bridge to rename a folder with about 250 photos in it. I've never had more problems with such a simple operation. Bridge would stop renaming them and half would end up with temp file names. I would select all of the files and do a batch rename and then nothing would happen. I would wait and wait and nothing would happen. Then I would quit Bridge and get the Windows message that Bridge experienced a problem and would I send an error report, and when I reopened the folder half of the files would again have temporary names assigned by Bridge. It took me hours to finally get them all renamed. I don't know if it is my computer, my OS, or what but it was an irritating mess. I will never use Bridge to do file management again.
Like was said, if they are in LR then you have to use LR to do this. But if they aren't in LR I would download Irfanview to do the batch renaming. I've never had a problem with it and it's fast and easy.

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