>Is there any solution where I can have an icon on the desktop, or a scheduled event , of some sort.

Perry Foreman pointed me to this, which I have found to be very helpful...

http://www.sqldbatips.com/showarticle.asp?ID=27

It helps to understand SQLCMD along with the above. You can view some old webcasts free from the links below (the first one, by Michiel Wories, was far better IMO).

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032275435&CountryCode=US
http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032290603%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e

Armed with the above, you can create jobs that run in the Windows Task scheduler to automatically run a backup and do other maintenance routines without purchasing 3rd party software. I've done it and it works.