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In situations where a system task will be interrupted by sleep transitions, many people will probably try to avoid having to wait for the task to finish by increasing the “Sleep after” time interval, or by just turning off the sleep feature altogether. And I’m afraid that many of those people won’t comply with the suggestion to return the sleep setting to its original state after each task, as Steve and others here have conscientiously recommended. So I have some reservations about this revamping of the sleep logic, and feel that it could actually end up working contrary to the goals defined by the Energy Star program. This concern is reinforced by the fact that the Microsoft documentation doesn’t make any mention of toggling the sleep setting (How can I prevent my computer from automatically sleeping or hibernating?):

While there isn’t any answer for this idling-to-sleep issue that doesn’t involve a little work, there is a simple alternative that solves the idling-to-sleep issue without any modification of the sleep setting, and can thus help keep things compliant with the Energy Star guidelines. The alternative solution derives from the fact that the limitations that we see in the MP Scheduled Scan task (the inability to wake the computer or to keep the computer awake) simply don’t exist in user-defined Task Scheduler scan tasks. So in order to “reprogram” the MP Scheduled Scan task with these “missing” options, all you really have to do is create your own Task Scheduler scan task, and then enable the “Wake the computer” option. This will keep the computer awake for the duration of the scan so that you don’t have to change your power settings or fiddle around on your computer to keep the scan running. The “stay awake” mode might have been designed primarily to keep unattended tasks running, but it’s something that you can also use to keep the computer awake when you schedule your scan for the working hours in order to help conserve energy, as I suggested here:

When you set up a scheduled scan task with the default settings, the scans will run at full speed; which is fine for overnight scans, or for working-hours scans on powerful computers. But this might be a problem for working-hours scans on computers with marginal resources, because the scan task will tend to consume system resources to the point where the system’s responsiveness is affected. So if you need to throttle down your scans in order to run them during a work session, you can do this by invoking the NT AuthoritySystem account: Simply click on the “Change User or Group” button and enter “System”. This will cause your scan task to run through the Security Essentials GUI (main interface), and it will then obey the CPU-usage setting there, while still retaining the ability to wake the computer and keep it awake for the duration of the scan. This configuration thus gives you the advantages of the MP Scheduled Scan task without the limitations, and allows you to take full control of your scheduled scans.

Now, while you can’t directly “reprogram” the Security Essentials “Scan now” scans, notice that once your task has been set up in Task Scheduler, you do have a “functional equivalent”, because the task can be run “on-demand” by right-clicking on it and selecting “Run”. Or better yet, you can set up a desktop shortcut: Right-click on the desktop; select “New”, and then “Shortcut”; and then enter this path for the “location of the item”:

C:WindowsSystem32schtasks.exe /run /tn 'TaskName'

Put the name of your scan task in quotes. Then right-click on the shortcut and select “Properties”; click on the “Advanced” button; and check “Run as administrator”.

Basic Tasks are extremely easy to set up; just try it and see: Task Scheduler > Action menu > Create Basic Task

Browse to: C:Program FilesMicrosoft Security ClientAntimalwareMpCmdRun.exe

Then enter these “arguments” for a Full scan: -Scan -ScanType 2

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Or these “arguments” for a Quick scan: -Scan -ScanType 1

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