Question

I need a Task Scheduler for Windows. Unfortunately the builtin scheduler doesn’t meet my needs, which are:

• can run tasks every minute/hour
• runs on Linux and Windows
• 32 and 64 bit versions
• GUI interface
• free

Nice to haves:

• supports CRON files
• open source
• status reports of execution times

thanks!

Answer 1

Just some corrections on your claims regarding the Windows Task Scheduler.

• can run tasks every minute/hour

Every hour:

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or minute:

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• runs on Linux and Windows

Ok, you get that probably only with cron. But Windows and Linux are different enough to warrant OS-specific stuff anyway, so why bother burdening Windows users with yet another scheduler? (There are already too many out there as nearly every single application that needs something scheduled includes its own …)

Same for an arbitrary non-cron scheduler for Linux, though, just for both platforms, then.

• 32 and 64 bit versions

The Windows Task Scheduler runs as a service, bittiness is kinda a no-issue there as it only starts other processes which couldn’t care less about whether their spawner was 32 or 64 bit. However, it’s available in 64 and 32 bit.

• GUI interface

Enough GUI?

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• free

Included in every Windows installation. Should suffice, I’d say.