CRON-Jobs for Drupal on a Windows platform without the annoying popups of a browser!

Download an install wget for windows from the SourceForge website with this link :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/wget/1.11.4-1/wget-1.11.4-1-setup.exe/download

In the environment path of your windows-cmd-line thingy set the path to the installation of wget-for-windows( usually something like : C:\Program Files\GnuWin32.

If you want to run a manually CRON-Job of your website you can do something like this in the cmd-line-prompt:

wget -O - -q -t 1 http://localhost/your_own_site/cron.php

And Of course make a Scheduled Task ! And make it run for every hour, then you're guaranteed that the drupal site is and stays cewl!

Make shure that in the Task-tab run-command it says something like this:

"C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\wget.exe" -O - -q -t 1 "http:\localhost\your_own_site\cron.php"
Pay attention to the double quotes!