Schedules commands and programs to run periodically or at a specific time. Adds and removes tasks from the schedule, starts and stops tasks on demand, and displays and changes scheduled tasks.
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I've known about the at command to schedule tasks in windows, and it turns out that schtasks is a more detailed command.
For instance to schedule a task to run every five minutes:
schtasks /create /tn "task name goes here" /tr executable_goes_here.exe /sc minute /mo 5
