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Wake from sleep to do a virus scan?
I am usung Win 7 pro 64 bit. I have Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) installed as my anti-virus software. I'd like to schedule a daily virus scan at 3am. I set up MSE to do this in the options. The problem is is that the computer is asleep at 3am and I don't think it is waking from sleep (and even if it does wake, it needs a logon password).
Anyway, I'd like to configure the system so that the computer is woken up by the scheduled virus scan, performs the scan, and then goes back to sleep. I assume that I will need to use Task Manager to do this but I have looked at it and I don't understand how to set it up. Do I need to know the .exe name of the actual scan process?
Also, I'd like to make it so that the scheduled virus scan is what wakes up the computer... I don't want to just set the task manager to "wake up at 3am".
Finally, SOMETHING is waking up my computer every morning at 3am. The last three mornings I have noticed the light from my monitor and when I go out into the office, the win 7 logon screen is on.... is some process trying to run but is being prevented from doing so because the computer is set to ask for logon after waking up from sleep? Once again, I have checked out task manager and there seems to be nothing there. Any ideas what this might be? I am very unfamiliar with task manager so detailed instructions would be helpful.
Thanks,
Brian