Does Windoes 10 Version 1809 mess with Sleep activity?

I am running Version 1809 (Pro) on a 4-year-old 4th Gen Intel i7
CPU with about 110 GB used on a 1 TB SATA drive. Up thru Version
1803, Running a weekly full scan with Kaspersky Internet Security
or System Mechanic's Malware scan would each take about two
hours, and they would run thru my computer, left alone, going
into Sleep mode after 30 minutes. Since updating to Version
1809, both of these programs seem to stop when the computer goes
into Sleep mode. Yesterday, I started System Mechanic's malware
scan at 10:30 AM and left home. When I returned at 3:04 PM, one
about 176,000 files had been checked of about 2.5 million files.
Bummer! Today I left Kaspersky's scan running and after four
hours it was only 50% finished. Both programs will resume when I
bring the computer out of Sleep mode. (Conversely, Mozy backup
does it's automatic update during Sleep mode.)

I think that the only things that's changed on my computer is the
update to Version 1809.

Any thought about this would be welcome. Thanks in advance.

Kirk Bubul wrote:
I am running Version 1809 (Pro) on a 4-year-old 4th Gen Intel i7
CPU with about 110 GB used on a 1 TB SATA drive. Up thru Version
1803, Running a weekly full scan with Kaspersky Internet Security
or System Mechanic's Malware scan would each take about two
hours, and they would run thru my computer, left alone, going
into Sleep mode after 30 minutes. Since updating to Version
1809, both of these programs seem to stop when the computer goes
into Sleep mode. Yesterday, I started System Mechanic's malware
scan at 10:30 AM and left home. When I returned at 3:04 PM, one
about 176,000 files had been checked of about 2.5 million files.
Bummer! Today I left Kaspersky's scan running and after four
hours it was only 50% finished. Both programs will resume when I
bring the computer out of Sleep mode. (Conversely, Mozy backup
does it's automatic update during Sleep mode.)

I think that the only things that's changed on my computer is the
update to Version 1809.

Any thought about this would be welcome. Thanks in advance.

Right-click start, use Run, and type "control"
in there. That will start Control Panels running.
Right-click the Control Panel folder icon on the
task bar, and select "Pin", so that Control Panels
sticks around for the next time you need it.

In there is "Power" control panel.

The default power schema could be "Balanced".

You can set a basic Sleep interval in there. I have
mine set to "Never".

In addition there is an Advanced option, which brings
up more items. It includes a provision (near the bottom),
to allow multimedia programs to keep the computer awake.
This allows you to insert a 2 hour DVD and watch a
Hollywood movie, without having to constantly move the
mouse to prevent sleep.

What's not clear to me in your description, is if
you expect sleep to happen after each program has
finished scanning. Some backup programs for example,
have a setting where they will sleep or shut down
after a backup is finished (even if the Power panel
is set to "Never", something could still command
the machine to sleep, including the main desktop menu).
An AV program may not extend this kind of feature.
These are not features you can rely on each program
supporting necessarily.

A movie player could prevent sleep.
A backup program could engage sleep.
The Power panel sets a basic policy, as a function
of selected schema ("Balanced").
Sleep can be stopped entirely, by things that
"powercfg energy report" can tell you about
(some driver doesn't support sleep).

Paul

"Kirk Bubul" wrote in message
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Since updating to Version
1809, both of these programs seem to stop when the computer
goes into Sleep mode. Both programs will resume when I
bring the computer out of Sleep mode. (Conversely, Mozy
backup does it's automatic update during Sleep mode.)

I think that the only things that's changed on my computer is
the update to Version 1809.

Any thought about this would be welcome. Thanks in advance.

Windows 10 has a hidden 'System Unattended sleep timeout'.
Try enabling and adjusting the setting and retest.

Editing the registry value as shown below will make it available in
'Advanced Power Settings' and allow the end-user to manually set their
preference.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Power\PowerSettings\238C9FA8-0AAD-41ED-83F4-97BE242C8F20\7bc4a2f9-d8fc-4469-b07b-33eb785aaca0
to 2 (or 0) makes the option appear in the advanced power settings, under
Sleep and can be set to something normal.

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