Here is a tip that uses the Date / Time macro expansion introduced in the recent Version 1.9 Released.

I have WinCron in my start up group so it restarts every time I reboot the PC. I wanted to have a log of all of WinCron's activity. But every time the machine was rebooted , the log file would get over written.

Now I use the following command string in the Target section of the Shortcut that starts WinCron from my start up group.

{Please note that the command is all on one line} C:\Progra~1\Tomase~1\WinCron\WinCron.exe -load sched.txt -hide -logfile C:\Progra~1\Tomase~1\WinCron\logs\%m%%d%%H%%M%.txt

This gives me a new log file every time the machine is rebooted. The logs are keept in the LOGS subdirectory that I created under the WinCron directory. The format of the file name is: %m% Month as decimal number (01-12) %d% Day of month as decimal number (01-31) %H% Hour in 24-hour format (00-23) %M% Minute as decimal number (00-59) As a example here is the file name from the last reboot and restart of WinCron

01211207.TXT

So the file name tells us that WinCron was started on: JAN (01) the Twentyfirst (21) at 12 (12) 07 (07) PM - We know it's PM because we are using the %H% variable which gives as the Hour in 24-hour format.

You can of try different %variable's% if you want , but beware that many,combinations produce long filenames or file names with illegal charters which will not work.