One of the things I hate about Windows is their crappy Schedules Tasks utililty. It is really quite akward to set up a recurring task that runs more often than every day. Also, if you are in a corporate environment that makes you change your password monthly, all your schedules tasks stop working… Crap!What to do? Cygwin to the rescue!For those of you not familiar with Cygwin, it is a unix like environment for Windows which provides most of the GNU utilities running from a familiar bash shell (Familiar to *nix fans anyway).To set up Cron as a windows nt service, you need to have a cygwin installation with cron and cygrunsrv installed.
To install as a service:
cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
To start the service:
net start cron
You may then edit your crontab with:
crontab -e
Happy Cronning!