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AdAware Free scan times manual vs.automatic

Dec 13, 2003 8:46PM PST

When I scan AdAware Free manually (in depth) the scan takes 20 minutes. When I scan it automatically with Task Scheduler, the scan takes 4 minutes. Am I doing something wrong or is this normal behaviour?

On a separate topic, I registered (yesterday) at http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/ and am not allowed to post (yet). If anyone is involved with that forum, can you find out why 'haroldo' can't post.

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Re:AdAware Free scan times manual vs.automatic
Dec 14, 2003 12:20AM PST
When I scan AdAware Free manually (in depth) the scan takes 20 minutes. When I scan it automatically with Task Scheduler, the scan takes 4 minutes. Am I doing something wrong or is this normal behaviour?

Interesting.
Just guessing, maybe the scheduled task for Ad-aware is using Smartscan? Smartscan AFAIK will only scan the new items or items that has changes from your previous scan.

On a separate topic, I registered (yesterday) at http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/ and am not allowed to post (yet). If anyone is involved with that forum, can you find out why 'haroldo' can't post.

Try to go here for Resend Validation Email request which might help.
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Been there, done that, three times
Dec 14, 2003 1:17AM PST

any other ideas?

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Re:Been there, done that, three times
Dec 14, 2003 2:11AM PST