I would stay away from the Windows scheduler, as it has some rather nasty quirks (a failed job gets unscheduled automatically) and no nice way of logging / mailing the output.

I would use Schedule::Cron (or Schedule::Cron::Nofork, a modification of Schedule::Cron I wrote), to run jobs periodically. Both modules do not have the notification features of cron, and have no built-in logging, but it's not hard to implement logging.

With Schedule::Cron, you can schedule your tasks in a crontab style, to run every n minutes.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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