Can NAV be set up to prompt at reboot if a scheduled scan was missed?

[peva2]

Here is the problem (more of a nuisance, not a serious problem): If a computer happens to be turned off at the time of a scheduled scan, it does not start a scan or prompt the user that a scan was missed upon reboot.
Is it possible to set NAV up to prompt the user upon reboot that a scheduled scan was missed and ask if you want to run the scan now? I realize that I can tell it to scan on *all* reboots, but I don't want that. I only want that **IF** a scheduled scan was missed.

A second question: Didn't earlier versions of NAV do that (prompt if scan missed)? Or am I thinking of another anti-virus program that maybe I used in the past?

 

[peva2]

Once more, I am answering my own question, but perhaps others can learn from what I discovered with a little prompting from someone on another forum (they didn't have the answer, but they got me thinking enough to wander around in Windows Task Scheduler to find the answer).

With a little search in the Windows Help, I learned that there is a menu item under the "Advanced" heading in Windows Task Scheduler called "Notify me of missed tasks" - self explanatory.

It is a global setting, meaning that it's either on or off for *all* scheduled tasks in that computer. But that should work. Now, say on a laptop, if the user is traveling when a scan is supposed to happen, at next bootup, the computer will notify him/her that they missed a scan, and it will be up to them to start one manually. That's good enough for me - these people have to meet me halfway to protect their computers.

The help article says you have to be logged in as administrator to change that setting, so that will require a little extra work and time on the XP machines since you have to reboot in safe mode to log in as administrator.

Problem solved (close enough anyway).