How to Create Multiple Folders at the Same Time on Windows

This practical guide walks through how to create multiple folders at the same time on Windows, explains the main requirements, and highlights common issues that may appear along the way.

Create multiple Windows 10 folders at once using Command Prompt

First, open the Start menu and enter the keyword 'cmd' in the search bar of Windows Search. Then, click 'Command Prompt' from the corresponding search results.

You can change the directory in the Command Prompt with the cd command, and switch to another location on Windows where you want to create multiple folders at the same time.

Now, let's assume that you want to create 7 folders at the same time, corresponding to each day of a week. In this case, you can use the following command:

md sunday monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday 

Of course, you can completely replace the folder names written after the md command with the actual names you want to set.

Then, you can close the Command Prompt and navigate to the destination location you selected with the cd command above, you will see a series of new folders with the corresponding names have been created.

Create multiple Windows 10 folders at once using PowerShell

Another method that allows you to create multiple folders at once is to use Windows PowerShell. We will continue to use the same folder names as listed above as an example.

To get started, open the Start menu and enter the keyword 'PowerShell' into the search bar of Windows Search. Then, right-click 'PowerShell' from the corresponding search results and select the 'Run as administrator' option.

The PowerShell window will immediately open to the same user folder by default. Assuming you want to create new folders in the "Documents" target directory, it can be done with the cd command. For example the following:

cd Documents

Bulk folder creation will require you to gather filenames first, and then run a specific command in a PowerShell window. Again assuming you want to create directories corresponding to each day of the week, we have the following command:

"sunday", "monday", "tuesday", "wednesday", "thursday", "friday", "saturday" | %{New-Item -Name "$_" -ItemType "Directory"}

Of course, you can still replace the folder name inside the quotes with something else you want.

After running the command, close PowerShell and open Windows Explorer to find the 'Documents' folder or the selected destination location. You will see the corresponding new folders have been created.