[Dreylivude]

Hello everyone,

My parents just got a new computer and I'm setting it up for them, you know hooking it up, taking the unnecessary programs off, putting necessary ones on, and I ran into a snag.

I'm trying to set up the AVG Free scheduled task so that my parents won't have to worry about it so much. Now I set up the scheduler in AVG to the desired times, but I did a test (set one to start in a minutes time) and it didn't go. Now I knew how to fix this in xp, but I can't seem to figure it out on Vista with the new fangled scheduler. Help is appreciated.

Also, if anyone knows of a good guide on what processes I could prevent to speed the pc up a little, would be good too. Since I don't know what Vista needs to run properly and what can be turned off in MSCONFIG.

Thanks again.

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AVG scheduled tasks you can set up from within AVG itself as opposed to using the Windows scheduler.

[Neil Jones]

AVG scheduled tasks you can set up from within AVG itself as opposed to using the Windows scheduler.

[Dreylivude]

Yes, I know that. That's where I set them. But they don't run when they are supposed to, and I'm just wondering if there is something special in vista that you have to do.

[Neil Jones]

Which version of AVG is it? AVG is Vista compatible in all areas from version 7.5 build 441.

Having said that, this might be of interest:


Use Windows task scheduler, disable the one in AVG and make a new task in Task Scheduler with the command to run of:

"C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\avgw.exe" /test="Complete Test"

This should also work in Vista.

[Dreylivude]

Yes, that worked perfectly. Could you tell me the proper code for the update sequence too? one that doesn't require confirmation from the user?