[Masterman10]

I have an anti-virus software that I like to run in the early morning when I am not on for it takes a long time to scan and slows my computer down. I have set it to run at 4 a.m. every wednesday. Yet, when I put my computer to sleep the program does not scan.
So I went into task schedular to set it so that it will wake the computer to run. I go to the scheduled task that refers to this program and then I open the properties. I set it to wake the computer and a few other settings. I press ok and it keeps my settings. Yet, when I close task schedular and open it back up it has reset my settings. How can I get it to keep my settings, it is doing this with all of my tasks.

[Rich-M]

Wake up settings must be set in the bios to begin with under Power Management, then in Windows for scheduling.

[Masterman10]

I checked the BIOS. I don't have power management. But I have a power tab. Yet, under it is what to do if I lose AC power (keep off or turn back on) and a Visulazation technology option.

[Rich-M]

That's all the help I can be without knowing any of the hardware I'm afraid.

[Masterman10]

I have a Dual-boot system of vista premium with SP1 and XP professional
300 GB Hard Drive
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.31 GHz
2 GB of RAM
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT video card

[Rich-M]

Originally Posted by Masterman10

I have a Dual-boot system of vista premium with SP1 and XP professional
300 GB Hard Drive
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.31 GHz
2 GB of RAM
Nvidia GeForce 8600 GT video card

And the one thing we need you didn't give is motherboard make and model #.

[Masterman10]

Sorry bout that,
Manufacturer: Asus
Motherboard Name: M2N68-LA
HP/Compaq motherboard name: Narra2-GL8E

[Rich-M]

Sorry I can't help...I can see manuals but nothing I can find shows the bios screens which any normal mobo manual would show....it has to be there but if only these makers would publish decent manuals we could help better.

[Masterman10]

Can anyone help me out here. I have gone through the whole bios and and nothing that even remotely relates to my problem is there. Another idea- Is there any free software that I can get that will wake my computer according to a schedule. Or is there a way I can make task manager just wake the computer and not run anything. This way I can set it to wake 5 min or so before my anti-virus software is scheduled to run.