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    Hi,

     

    i have scheduled scans for 11 pm but it is past that time and i have not seen any notification or active processes in the task manager to suggest a scan is taking place.

     

    Is there any way one care can indicate that it is doing a scheduled scan?

     

    thanks

    Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:29 PM

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    The scheduled scan takes place in the background and typically runs for 10 to 15 minutes, scanning the most common locations for malware, with no indication it is happening except increased drive activity and perhaps memory and CPU usuage.

    -steve

     

    Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:26 PM
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    The report in OneCare that Defrag didn't complete due to high fragmentation actually means that OneCare's execution of the Windows Defrag utility didn't get through in the allotted time. OneCare executes the Defrag directly and no check if it is needed happens first. There is always fragmentation present, so the time allotted by OneCare during a Tune-up is good to take care of the largest fragmentation. With today's file systems, disk speeds, and CPUs, some people will never notice a difference unless the disk is severely fragmented. You can leave the Vista schedule off or turn it back on and you can manually run Defrag whenever you wish, but I would suggest it won't make much of a difference unless you do lots of editing of very large files or use large databases.

    -steve

     

    Friday, January 11, 2008 3:44 PM
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    The scheduled scan takes place in the background and typically runs for 10 to 15 minutes, scanning the most common locations for malware, with no indication it is happening except increased drive activity and perhaps memory and CPU usuage.

    -steve

     

    Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:26 PM
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    Thanks stephen for your quick response.  It seems the program is very light weight and does not show much cpu usage  - it's great!

     

    One other thing, The scheduled maintainence was performed tonight and it has reported that the disk fragmentation scan partially done and could not be completed due to high levels of fragmentation on this volume.  Here is what was in in the log:

     

    11/01/2008 2:45 AM
    Disk Defragmentation Start Time: 11/01/2008 2:30:30 AM
    Disk Defragmentation End Time: 11/01/2008 2:45:05 AM

    C: Defragmentation partially completed.

    Should I run the microsoft disk defragmenter seperately ?  I have disabled its schedule in windows Vista preferences.  Should I have not disabled it?

     

    Thanks.

     

    edit:  i have just run the microsoft defrag in the console with the -a and -v switches for analysis only.  It has reported that there is no need for defrag.  There is 1% file fragmentation.

    Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:43 PM
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    The report in OneCare that Defrag didn't complete due to high fragmentation actually means that OneCare's execution of the Windows Defrag utility didn't get through in the allotted time. OneCare executes the Defrag directly and no check if it is needed happens first. There is always fragmentation present, so the time allotted by OneCare during a Tune-up is good to take care of the largest fragmentation. With today's file systems, disk speeds, and CPUs, some people will never notice a difference unless the disk is severely fragmented. You can leave the Vista schedule off or turn it back on and you can manually run Defrag whenever you wish, but I would suggest it won't make much of a difference unless you do lots of editing of very large files or use large databases.

    -steve

     

    Friday, January 11, 2008 3:44 PM
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    Ok.  Thanks again steve!!
    Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:04 AM