Force OS X to do its cleaning

I understand that OS X does daily weekly and monthly tasks in the small hours so it is unobtrusive.
I used to leave my iMac on all night but after working out how much I could save by turning all my computers off when not in use, the iMac is now only on for a maximum 15 hours a day.
How can I force OS X to do the tasks it misses? I think I read somewhere that it does them automatically when it is on if it has missed them a lot, but I would like to have control just in case. Preferably a way to just do all at once.
Regards

Click here for information. The note about the tasks not running if the computer is asleep isn't applicable to Mac OS X 10.5.
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