Hi Joanne, On my computer I have a 250 gig harddrive & a 500 gig external drive. It takes approximately 2 & ½ hours for a full/100% scan. If anyone wants to keep apprised of your scan status, do the following. 1. After you have started your scan, route the jaws cursor to the PC cursor using the keystroke JAWS / insert key + num pad minus / JAWS cursor key. 2. Now, press the key combo of control key + home key to route the cursor to the top of the page. 3. You can now arrow down 1 line at a time to view the scanning processes and percentages of the scan completed.. When I do a scan my system seems to hang up at a certain percentage / number of files for a long period of time, but I just let it go because it does eventually get through it and complete the scan. Yes, Avast does update itself automatically. Hope this helps. Take care. Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: Joanne To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 3:23 AM Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] how to set up Avast so it works better with Jaws Thank you for this info, Mike. I have it running but am now wondering about updates. Since this is the free version, do I need to update it myself once a week or so, or does this update definitions regularly? And is it normal for it to take a very long time to do a thorough scan? I think this is what it's set on, and it barely moves percentage-wise and has so far taken about an hour. I have 2 hard drives in here so maybe that's the norm but just wanted to know. Thanks again. Joanne For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
