Win XP Pro Standby

themole

Hi.

I normally leave my PC on all the time, and do a virus scan at 3am every night.

I now want to have it go into standby to save power etc.

Is there a way to get the pc to wake-up from standby to do a virus scan etc ?

seamus

Most virus scanners will wake the machine to run virus scans.

Apart from that, when creating or editing a scheduled tasks, there's a tick box for "Wake the computer to run this task".

themole

I am running sophos and it doesn't seem to wake up from standby to run a scan

seamus

OK, then check your Scheduled Tasks (Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks)

If the sophos scan is in there, double-click on it to open it, go to the Settings tab, and click the box I mention above.

If it's not in there, you'll need to find the command to tell sophos to run a full scan, and create a scheduled task as above.

Or sophos itself may have an option to wake the machine to run the scan.

themole

Sophos does not have an option to "wake" the PC. There was also no scheduled task for it.

I have now added a scheduled task and set it to "wake" the PC.

Hopefully that works.

Thanks for the info

themole

Yo, it worked.

Sophos did indeed do a scan last night