When my scheduled scan comes on, the pop-up at the lower right of my screen no longer shows a progressing percentage. It’s always stuck at 0% right up until it finishes. Is there a fix for that?
That is because of a new technique to speed up scanning, the old method would know the number of files and folders to be scanned so had a rough idea of files and folders scanned how many to be completed so was able to give a rudimentary percentage.
The new technique in the Scan > Settings > Performance > File access ‘Speed up scanning by reading files in the order they are stored on disk.’ So rather than starting by scanning the C:\ drive folder by folder (and this data could be all over the disk so a lot of hard disk read head travel) it scans files as they are stored on disk.
So it doesn’t actually know if a folder has been completely scanned until the end of the scan, if you temporarily disable this you will get the percentage progress back, but you would lose the improvement in the speed of scan. Me I will stick with this option enabled.
I don’t think it’s related.
Not counting the folders till the very end (and I’m not sure if this hasn’t changed recently) doesn’t mean not showing the progress. On contrary - in the “sorted” scanning mode the progress should be shown much more precisely, as the files are enumerated in advance.
What scheduled scan is that? (What areas does it scan?)
I use that physical-order option when running scans, usually a full system scan, and the progress bar works fine for me. It always did take a while to progress beyond zero, but I suspect that’s while it’s checking memory, startup, and registry items at the start of the scan.