Thanks for the insight I really appreciate it. I will try using the sleep
mode from now on.
"Rojo Habe" wrote:
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> Try using Sleep instead of Hibernate. This keeps the RAM and processor
> going in a low power state but shuts down pretty much everything else,
> including the hard drives, fans and all lights on the machine so that it
> looks like it's off. It does everything that Hibernate does (dumps the
> contents of memory to the hard drive) so it's safe in case there's a power
> cut, but it resumes A LOT faster, and is able to wake up to perform
> scheduled tasks.
>
> I've got a bit of a problem with Defender at the moment, so it's still not
> running a scan, but I do know Windows Update is running every morning at 3AM
> without problems.
>
>
> "janis75" <janis75@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > okay obviously *I* came across as a complete moron so *I* guess *I* didn't
> > state the isue the right way.
> >
> > I understand that normally a computer would have to be on in order for it
> > to
> > do certain things however, I am new to Vista so I didn't know if it could
> > do
> > anyting special like that.
> >
> > just a question is all.......as I said I was just looking for direction
> > because Vista is new to me.
> >
> >
> > "t-4-2" wrote:
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> >>
> >> janis75;707654 Wrote:
> >> > this may seem like a weird question / situation whatever but I have
> >> > both
> >> > my
> >> > windows defender and my anti-virus program set to automatically scan my
> >> > computer at 2 am on a daily basis. I usually put my computer into
> >> > hibernation
> >> > when I am done working on it and for some reason it doesn't seem like
> >> > either
> >> > one of these programs is doing what it should be doing. If I actually
> >> > do a
> >> > complete shutdown on my computer then after I restart it it tells me
> >> > that my
> >> > computer hasn't been scanned in x amount of days. I thought I had
> >> > everything
> >> > set up correctly but I guess I may be missing something. Does anybody
> >> > have
> >> > any suggestions? I have never had an issue like this. Every other
> >> > computer I
> >> > have had things worked and scanned just fine like they were set up to
> >> > do.
> >> > Please help
> >> Hello janis,
> >> Maybe * I * am the one missing something. I always thought the
> >> computer had to be ON before scanning could be executed. Am I wrong ?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> t-4-2
> >>
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