Is there an equivalent to cron in Windows?

Question

I want to know if there is an equivalent cron in Windows and how I can use it programmatically using PHP.

Answer 1

Windows has the Scheduled Tasks control panel applet (or management console plug-in on later versions of Windows) but you can also access it via schtasks.exe if you want to automate it from the command line.

In addition, you can also use at from the command line to schedule a task.

Answer 2

Need to be in shell/bash?

Windows have the 'tool' that you could put tasks to run in a given time.

Task Scheduler

Try to see this how-to: HERE

Cheers

Answer 3

This link my friend has everything you need to run cron equivalent in Windows http://drupal.org/node/31506

Answer 4

You can try PHPCron