Doug <do*****@earthl ink.net> wrote in message news:<sO******* **********@news read3.news.atl. earthlink.net>. ..
I have Windows XP professional. Is there ANYTHING reliable on Windows
that is like cron on UNIX that will allow you run something at regular
intervals, for example, like every 10 minutes?
Take a look at nnCron LITE (
http://www.nncron.ru ):
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nnCron LITE is a small, but full-featured scheduler that can start
applications and open documents at a specified time or with specified
frequency. nnCron LITE is a perfect freeware Windows clone of a
well-known UNIX scheduler Cron (including all the useful Anacron
features).
Here are the most important features of nnCron LITE:
it can be started as a system service or as a regular standalone
application
it understands cron table format (Unix) and is managed with
easy-to-edit text crontab files that are fully compatible with Unix
crontabs
it can handle and restart so called missed tasks
it can set and use environment variables
it can run applications authorized as currently logged user
(WinNT/2000/XP)
it can be extended with plugins written in Forth language
it can be easy tuned up to answer your current needs
it is not resource demanding, and it can run even on very older PCs
without any noticeable performance degradation. (We have never seen
nnCron LITE service to allocate more than 150k of operative memory.)
nnCron LITE is FREE!
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HTH!