cron - Windows task scheduler to execute tasks in seconds

Question

I'm looking for an open source/free task scheduler for Windows 7 (development machine) that will allow me to schedule tasks (HTTP requests to a web service) to run every x seconds.

I've tried a couple of Cron clones and windows own Task Scheduler but neither seem to allow tasks to run at intervals less than 60 seconds. Am I missing something? I don't want to have to go and write any custom scripts either if possible.

Answer 1

It is possible to create multiple triggers for one scheduled task. If you create 59 identical triggers with an offset of 1 second to each other, and schedule the task itself to run every minute, you end up the scheduled task to run every second.

You could create those 59 triggers manually using the GUI. However, a much quicker way to create so many triggers is to create a task with one or two triggers, export it to a text file, duplicate the according lines, change the start offsets accordingly, and then re-import the file.