Windows 10: running a scan and it says it is going to take 30 hours to complete

I'm running a full virus scan and the more files it scans the higher the estimated completion time goes. It's now over 30 hours.

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Windows Updated(16299.309).KB4088776 Restart is required to complete.


Hi dalchina. Good news, I followed your suggestion and reinstalled the update and now it appears as "installed correctly" *Biggrin Maybe it was not necessary to run the Windows Update Troubleshooter or maybe if necessary. But using it I do not think it could have worsened something. The installation was very fast, unlike the first time it showed step 1 and step 2 completed.

Thanks for the suggestions and for the time to respond Best regards.


And thanks for the tip of that program, I'll have it on my list.

 

How run Scans without PC going to sleep


This has been bugging me.

When I run a long scan of say Malwarebytes Custom Scan or Microsoft Safety Scanner after a certain amount of time, my PC goes to sleep. And of course the scan stops until I move the mouse to wake it and the scan re-starts.
Some of these scans take many many hours to complete because of this sleep/wake/sleep cycle.

I don't really want to touch my sleep / power settings each time I run a scan?

So how do you guys handle this? I would love to be able to run these longer scans when I go to bed and wakeup to a completed scan.

 

Green bar does not go all the way to the end and scan stops and says scan completed

Green bar does not go all the way to the end and scan stops and says scan

completed. same for quick & full s.can