Power Options Properties

[ralph]

I am running WIN XP Pro. I have an Intel D865 mother board.

I find that if I set it up to automatically go into "standby" after a period
of inactivity, it will not wake up to do a scheduled task (such as a viral
scan). If this the way the operating system was designed or do I have a
problem?
thanks....ralph

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I am running WIN XP Pro. I have an Intel D865 mother board.

I find that if I set it up to automatically go into "standby" after a
period of inactivity, it will not wake up to do a scheduled task (such as
a viral scan). If this the way the operating system was designed or do I
have a problem?
thanks....ralph

This may actually have nothing to do with the power options.

Does the user account have a password?

Scheduled tasks that rely on Windows Task Scheduler (this includes things
like Norton, and Acronis TrueImage backups), by default will *not* run if
the account has no password.

This can be defeated, but it's there for security reasons.

This probably won't apply if the scheduled tasks run when the system is
fully awake.

HTH
-pk

 

[Nepatsfan]

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I am running WIN XP Pro. I have an Intel D865 mother board.

I find that if I set it up to automatically go into "standby"
after a period
of inactivity, it will not wake up to do a scheduled task
(such as a viral
scan). If this the way the operating system was designed or
do I have a
problem?
thanks....ralph

See if this helps.

Go to Control Panel -> Scheduled Tasks and right click the task
in question.
Select Properties from the menu.
In the task's properties sheet, click on the Settings tab.
Put a check mark in the box next to "Wake the computer to run
this task".
Click OK.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[ralph]

Hi Nepatsfan:
Thanks for your reply. Here's some more detail. Right now I have configured
AVG Anti-virus and Windows Defender to do scheduled scans late at night. I
have done this from each application and it all works well if I leave the
PC running and do not go into a standby state. If I go into a standby state,
the scheduled scans do not run (presumably Windows does not wake up).
Do I need to do my scheduling through "Scheduled Tasks" rather from the
application if I have the PC go into a standby state. If this is the case,
would I need to know how to pass the appropriate parameters so, for example,
I could choose whether to do a full scan or a quick scan from Windows
Defender.
.....rlaph

 

[Nepatsfan]

I can't comment on Windows Defender since I don't use the
program. As for the free edition of AVG, the following works on
my system running version 7.5.

Go to Control Panel and double click Scheduled Tasks.
Double click "Add Scheduled Task".
Hit the Next button.
In the Applications box, click on AVG Test Center.
Hit the Next button.
Select how often and when you want the scan to run.
Enter your password twice.
Note: By default, Task Scheduler requires that the account the
task is running under must have a non-blank password. There are
ways around this but I wouldn't advise using them.
Hit the Next button.
Put a check mark in the box next to "Open advanced properties
for this task when I click Finish".
This should bring up the Properties sheet for this task.
On the Task page, look next to Run. You should see something
like C:\Progra~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgw.exe.
Click in this box and hit the space bar.
Now enter the following after avgw.exe.

/test=test plan in basic mode

The entire command should end up looking similar to this. Note
the space between avgw.exe and /test.

C:\PROGRA~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgw.exe /test=test plan in basic mode

Next, click on the Settings tab.
At the bottom, put a check mark in the box next to "Wake the
computer to run this task".
Click OK.

Note: If you have AVG Pro, you can configure custom designed
scans to run. To schedule one of those scans you would simply
change what's entered after /test= to point to the name of your
custom scan.

Keep in mind that if you don't find a way to run Defender when
your computer is on standby, there are workarounds. The
easiest would be to schedule a simple task that will wake up
the computer right before you want to run the scan. Something
as simple as opening and closing a command prompt window,
cmd.exe /C, will suffice as long as you configure the task to
wake the computer on the Settings page.

Good luck

Nepatsfan




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[ralph]

Hi Nepatsfan:
Thank you again for your help:

1: Where can I find documented the switch you use to make avg run
(/test=test plan in basic mode). I can't find it in the AVG 7.5 manual.

2: What command should I use to force avg to update it's definitions?
.....ralph

 

[Nepatsfan]

Here's the web site where I found the command line switches.

http://wallingsupport.com/support/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=10

Keep in mind that I took the "test plan in basic mode" portion
of that command right from AVG's Scheduled Tasks. Right click
the AVG icon in the notification area and select "Launch AVG
Control Center" from the menu. In Control Center, click on the
Scheduled Tasks button at the bottom of the window. "Test plan
in basic mode" is the name of the only scan you can run in AVG
Free.

As near as I can tell the command to update the definitions
would be something like this.

C:\Progra~1\Grisoft\AVG7\avgw.exe
/UPDDIR=http://update.grisoft.cz/softw/70/update/

Good luck

Nepatsfan

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