Vista - automatic scan

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

Were your other computers running Windows XP?

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 ?

Yes they were running XP.......I am new to Vista so I don't know if there is
a difference with this or not. that is why I was asking

"fuzor_silverbolt" wrote:

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:

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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Hello janis,
Please, don't take it as being offending. I DID NOT mean it that way.I truly was confused about the issue. I always thought I had to leave the computer on if I want to do scanning in the wee hour of the night. That's all. If I had hurt your feeling, I apologize, sincerely.

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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C.B.

Hello t-4-2

I apologize then as well. I guess I shouldn't have been so quick to jump the
gun and assume that you were trying to be offending in any way.

I have been told to put the computer in sleep mode to make sure that the
scanning will take place. However I am afraid that it will overheat itself. I
may just try to do my scanning when I fire up my computer at least that way I
won't have to worry about all this stuff. Thanks for the help though and
again I am sorry for the mis-communication earlier.

"t-4-2" wrote: