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.