Would being turned off vs being in 'sleep' mode at time for scheduled scan keep AVG from invoking its 'making up' feature upon being turned on?
Using the 'Post update memory scan' as a 'log' of when the computer was on or not 'sleeping' I see that the first instance of 'missing' a redo it was 'sleeping / off' 2+ days, but the next and second instance missing a redo it was only 'sleeping / off' for 8-9 hours. My normal setting is once a week at 3am, when I'm less likely to be using it, but may at times as I keep odd hours. Why it didn't run after eventually opening / waking it up makes no sense unless there's a 'time out' window after which it awaits the next scheduled scan, skipping the 'missed' scan. There are times I may not use the unit for several days, which may have been the case during the recent instances of failure to run scheduled scans. While I seldom turn the computer off, when not in use I do close it up and hence it goes into 'sleep' mode'. Also if it's in the process of running a scan, having started during 'wake' mode, it will pause upon computer going into 'sleep' mode until the computer is 'woke up', then continue and finish so long as awake.
if anything else comes to mind in the interim please post it.Īgain, thanks for your help and patience,įurther review / testing shows that when computer is 'awake' scheduled scan will start as it should, but when 'sleeping' scheduled scan won't invoke. Not necessarily for me directly, but those I've run up on while researching some issue I'm interested in. Some help threads I've read, admittedly for other problems with other software and computers in general are a real PITA to have to follow. This seemed odd, but I went and plugged it in to see if I could boot it up again. I checked on it about half an hour to an hour later, and found it was very warm I tried turning it on and it said 0 power. Any reason that's not the best way to go?īalasubramanian, I really appreciate your help and especially the concise and straightforward instructions you give. I took this as a sign that I may have lucked out, blew out the ports as best I could, and went and stuck the phone in a towel to dry out.
arrrgggghhhhh!!!īased on your notes re: Zen I guess it makes sense to install it whether I intend to use it near term or later on. And now it's started sprinkling which ain't good, but should pass. I really gotta get busy with this other stuff hanging over me po ol head. It'll be at least later this evening at the earliest, possibly the next day or so. I'll get back to you when I've had a chance to redo things as suggested, OR I might give it a chance to run at it's presently scheduled time which it shows under the 'Manage Scheduled Scans' section, OR reset the schedule to a sooner time when I've got time to watch it in order to speed things up.