How to change the Tor exit node programmatically to get a new IP?

Question

I have Tor running on my computer, and I need to change the Tor exit node every five minutes. For example, if I start using Tor via some exit node, then in 5 minutes I want

Answer 1

I have done something different here... i wrote a PHP program that can communicate with linux shell. The program would restart tor in regular intervals.

So when tor is restarted it gets a new IP.... Yeah.....!!

exec("/etc/init.d/tor restart",$ioOut);
print_r($ioOut); //output from shell after executing the command
sleep(25);

You can also write a shell script to do this.

I am now in search of a windows option to do this. The problem is .. in windows Tor is a service which cannot be restarted.