Wake Up From Sleep To Check For Updates?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I am using Avast 6 Free on a computer that is usually in sleep mode. I have an automatic scan set to run every other day and to wake up the computer if needed from sleep. I also have Avast configured to automatically check for updates every 1440 minutes (24 hours).

I note that on occasion (and I cannot quite figure it out), this computer is on when I think it should be asleep. I am wondering if Avast wakes up the computer from sleep to perform the update as it does for doing the scan.

I cannot find any documentation on this. Does anyone know? Thanks

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avast does NOT wake up the computer just to update.
Scanning is another thing. It should work, although, in some systems, it’s known it’s fail to wake up.
Better than a more expert programmer come here to help us.

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Thanks for the confirmation. I have no problems with Avast waking up my computer to scan. It must be something else causing the premature wake up.

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You’re welcome.
Glad the scanning wake up is working for you :slight_smile:

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Maybe Windows Event Viewer could help?

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Good idea. However I went there first. It is not clear that whatever it was is causing anything to be written to the event queue. Drats!