worst linux distro - is called lindows 2003 (cygwin + windows)
If you wonder why cron isn't working here are some workarounds


"On NT and Windows 2000 the SYSTEM user has these privileges and can run services such as sshd. However, on Windows 2003 SYSTEM lacks the Create a token object right, so it is necessary to create a special user with all the necessary rights, as well as Logon as a service, to run such services. For security reasons this user should be denied the rights to logon interactively or over the network. All this is done by configuration scripts such as ssh-host-config"

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html