# Cron job for php on windows?

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**Created:** [November 12, 2008, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-job-for-php-on-windows/275312 "2008-11-12T11:37:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cron-job-for-php-on-windows/275312/1 "2008-11-12T11:37:31Z")

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I’d like to run a small php script every 10 minutes or so on my host machine, and unfortunately it runs on non-administrator windows-xp (but i works fairly well, php+mysql) and I can’t change that.

Is there a way, other than a scheduled task, to run a ‘cron’ job on windows ? A php deamon or something ?

I use cmdow ([http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/](http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/) free) to run background/hidden .BATs, but the php thing is puzzling me a bit

any ideas ?