Ok so Avast home 5 now has the feature to schedule and within that to wake up the system. It specifically says from ‘sleep’. Does that mean hibernation on laptops only. I trialled it on my PC from standby and it didn’t work. So can anyone confirm/deny/link me something, anything lol
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Anyone?
I haven’t tried it from standby but it worked on my desktop from hybernation. I set up a schedule for a once only scan, and shut the PC down into Hybernation, but left the monitor switched on. At the scheduled time, the PC came out of Hybernation.
When the log on dialogue appeared, I did nothing, because in a real situation there would be no operator present to log on. After about a minute, the hard drive light came on and remained on whilst it was scanning, leaving the screen unchanged with the logon dialogue still showing. At the end of scanning there was another period of perhaps a couple of minutes with only a few random flashes of the drive light, and then the PC shut down back into hybernation.
At the next boot up, the scan log showed the date and time the scheduled scan had started and the result “no virus found”. Highlighting this entry brought up the details of the scan - run time, number of files tested, number of folders tested, amount of data tested and number of infected files.
Obviously in a real situation with a desktop the monitor would be left off. In a laptop it would no doubt come on when the unit was brought out of hybernation and turned off again when it was returned into hybernation at the completion of the scan.
A very nice feature.
I will try it from standby and post back with that result.
never worked for me from “sleep mode” (although in theory it should)… but I’m surprised you’re saying it worked from hibernation for you, gotta check this ??? but hard to believe at first sight.
edit: OK just checked, still a no go in sleep mode (although wake up timers are allowed) and hibernation of course not. That’s on my laptop, doesn’t mean it doesn’t work on other systems of course. In all cases here the scheduled scanned begins when after it failed to wake up automatically, I start my system manually.
OK, it works fine on my desktop PC from standby (sleep) as well as from hybernation.
There is a quite lengthy delay after the actual scan has finished before it returns back into standby/sleep (judging by the logged scan run time in relation to when the shutdown actually occurred).
My power settings for the desktop are that it never goes into either standby or hybernation automatically (no time period) so return to standby after the scan would seem to be orchestrated by the Avast program.
Logos,
Just a thought - did you untick “do not start the scan if running on batteries” and “pause the scan if batteries mode begins”
I left these ticked because the desktop PC runs from mains power (via a full time UPS), but they are significant in the case of a laptop.
Hi,
ticked or un-ticked, tried that before, doesn’t change anything. Might be something in the bios or in my Windows settings preventing that. No big deal…
I tested it a bit. It works on another desktop from standby because it was still receiving power during standby. I changed a setting a while ago in my bios that stopped my PSU’s fan from running whilst in standby and it looks like that’s why it won’t work
wondering if it would work if I removed my laptop battery, or if I unplugged the AC etc…but that’s no solution so :
… I’ll skip this feature 