I've recently noticed that Windows 7 will apparently go into sleep mode in the middle of virus scan or hard drive defrag. Needless to say, this is a bit annoying. Windows is set to sleep after 30 minutes, but I can't understand why it's doing this if if the hard drive is being used for a virus scan or defrag. I could jury rig a solution by increasing the time before Windows goes into sleep mode, but I can't understand why Windows is even eligible for sleeping in the middle of a pretty intensive system scan! The scanning programs I use where I've noticed that this occurs are Security Essentials and Smart Defrag.
Anyone have any thoughts on why this is happening?
Anyone have any thoughts on why this is happening?
