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Being a practical guy, I want my screen savers all black. In the Avast screen saver settings, in the “Underlying screensavers” list, I see all sorts of 3D screen savers, but not the simple “Blank” option, which I see in Win7 Screen Saver settings. Can “Blank” be added?
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What does “Loop scans” in Avast screen saver do? I don’t see any explanation in Help. I assume the Avast screen saver will start a new scan as soon as it finishes one. I think a more sensible approach would be to have a user-defined minimum time interval between scans, say 1-60 days. The screen saver would finish a scan and then wait that long before another one. This way, hard disks won’t get thrashed every time the screen saver comes on. BTW, what happens if “Loop scans” is unchecked? Will the screen saver do just one scan, then stop? Isn’t it basically the same as “Scan Now”?
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Being lazy, I don’t like having to enter the same set of folders/files in all those “Exclusion” lists in Avast: File System Shield->Expert Settings->Exclusions, GUI->Settings->Exclusions, Scan Now->Screen saver scan->Settings->Exclusions. I wish folder lists were modular. That is, I could isolate the set of folders that is common to several exclusion lists (~90% in my case) and save it as a text file. Then in any of the exclusion lists, I could just point Avast to that text file and Avast would add all folders in that file automatically. The text file could have a special extension, so that Avast knows it’s a folder list, not a file to be excluded (or maybe each exclusion list would have a special “folder list” entry just for such files). This could also be done within Avast, without text files. There would be a user-defined “Common folder/files list” and each exclusion list would have a check box “Use common folder list”.
Win7 x64, Avast 6.0.1000