"Joe" <abc@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>Just reading an article on page 91 of the March issue of PC World- the
>author suggests running AV type software at night- and that if the PC is
>not left on, it can be turned on by the Task Scheduler- which I just checked
>out but I couldn't figure out, yet, how to do this. I like the idea- if the
>computer can turn on, run the tune up, then turn off.
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>Suggestions welcome
>Joe
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Someone in te forums reported that this is what they do. The PC is set to sleep
after X minutes or hours of inactivity.
A task is configured in the Windows Scheduler to wake up the PC at 12:55 AM on
Sunday morning. The task can be anything, perhaps simply open another program,
if not OneCare.
OneCare would be scheduled to begin a Tuneup at 1:00 AM every Sunday.
Once Tune-up completes, the PC will then go back to sleep.
Note that Tune-up will not wake up the PC, but you can configure the scheduler
as above and since the PC is already awake, Tune-up will begin on schedule.
-steve
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