I’m guessing it’s there to prevent two tasks with the same name from overwriting or conflicting with each other. The standby tool is essentially creating a scheduled task in Windows that will wake the computer from standby, so all of the task names must be unique.
I figured that, but this makes it a little difficult to build one task to deploy 4 wakeup times. My intention is to have 1 task that wakes up the PC 4 times.
I would have to create 4 tasks, steal the one line from 3 of the tasks and put it into the one task i intend to use.
runhidden __Download\StandbyTool.exe /W “Tue, 26 Oct 2010 01:00:00 {local time zone as string}” repeat daily 1 /n “WFS - 1am 2601288113551”
Just because the wizard generates that random number in the task name doesn’t mean you have to use it. I have a task that does something very similar (waking systems 4 times a day, in fact). You can always make the one scheduled wakeup task and then copy/paste the command that the wizard generates 3 times. Then modify the start time (denoted by /W) and name (denoted by /n) on each copied command and you should be good to go.
As long as you don’t make and deploy another scheduled wakeup with the same name(s), you should be fine. I think that (seemingly) random string is there so that tasks generated by the wizard with the same names can’t overwrite themselves by mistake.