Avast Free suddenly stopped doing my scheduled scans

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Have used Avast Free for Windows on my laptop for some years but cannot understand why it no longer scans as I have not altered anything. I have therefore been having to do manual scans. I use Windows 10 and have also just updated to the latest update of Avast thinking that might solve the problem but it hasn’t. Please can anyone suggest how I can remedy this? Should I uninstall it completely and then reinstall?

Incidentally, is there a detailed instruction page how to set scheduled scans correctly? I remember initially it was not obvious - but it did work until recently.

Thank you

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https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB177

I’ve seen some posts where the scheduled scan does not take place at the time/date that it is set to, so I can’t promise it will work.
Could be that the problem is solved in the latest beta version.

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Thanks Eddy, have checked yet again that my settings are in order and still no scheduled scans being done. Will uninstall and try another AV.

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why not use screensaver scan instead of scheduled?

anyway, all AV have realtime protection, meaning evrything that goes on in your computer when on is checked by avast in realtime