User Guide

Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks
212 Dr Solomon’sAnti-Virus
2. Choose Dr Solomon’sAnti-VirusConsoleto make the Console
window appear.
Once you can display the Console window, you can also ensure that it will
load automatically at startup by choosing Load at startup from the View
menu.
the Console window initially shows a list of default tasks that come with the
Console, pre-configured and ready to run. A “task” is a set of instructions to
run a particular program, in a certain configuration, at a certain time. Along
with a name for each task, the Console window shows the path and filename
for the program that the task will run at the scheduled time. Tasks that you
create will always run the Dr Solomon’s Anti-Virus application. Your newly
created tasks will appear at the bottom of the Console window. the Console
alsoshowsthetimeanddateonwhicheachtasklastran,andthetimeanddate
on which it will next run.
The toolbar at the top of the Console window gives you quick access to the
program’s most common commands. To have this toolbar display only its
command buttons, click View,pointtoToolbar, then choose Standard
Buttons.
To add text captions to the buttons, click View,pointtoToolbar, then choose
Text Labels.Youcanhavebothoptionsactiveatthesametime—acheckmark
beside the menu item indicates which view is active. You’ll find most of the
same toolbar commands in the menus at the top of the Console window, and
in shortcut menus that appear when you click a listed task with your right
mouse button.
A status bar at thebottom of the Console window counts the number of listed
tasks. When you select a listed task, the status bar tells you when the task last
ran. The status bar alsoshows abrief descriptionofeach toolbarbuttonasyou
passyour mouse cursorover it. Choose Title Bar or Status Bar fromthe View
menu to display or hide each window element.
Using the Console window
From the Console window, you can:
• Create a new task. Choose New Task from the Task menu, or click in
the Console toolbar. A Task Properties dialog box will appear. To learn
howtonameandsetotherpropertiesforyour newtask,see“Creatingnew
tasks” on page 219.
• Schedule and enable a task. Select one of the tasks listed in the Console
window, then choose Properties from the Task menu, or click in the
Console toolbar. ATask Properties dialog box will appear.To learn how to
schedule and enable a task, see “Enabling tasks” on page 223.