User Guide

Creating and Configuring Scheduled Tasks
190 McAfee VirusScan
To add text captions to the buttons, click View, point to Toolbar, then choose
Text Labels. You can have both options active at the same time—a check mark
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 the bottom 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 also shows a brief description of each toolbar button as you
pass your mouse cursor over it. Choose Title Bar or Status Bar from the 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.
• 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. A Task Properties dialog box will appear.
• Configure the task. Select one of the tasks listed in the Console window,
then click in the Console toolbar to display a property page for the
VirusScan component that will run the task. How this property page looks
depends on which VirusScan component you run.
• Copy a task. Select one of the tasks listed in the Console window, then
choose Copy from the Edit menu, or click in the Console toolbar. This
copies the task to the Windows clipboard. Next, click inside the Console
window, then choose Paste from the Edit menu or click in the Console
toolbar to paste a copy of the task to the Console list. Use this feature to
copy task settings for use as templates for similar tasks.
• Delete a task. Select one of the tasks listed in the Console window, then
choose Delete from the Task menu, or click in the Console toolbar.
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NOTE: You can delete only tasks that you create—you may not
delete any of the tasks from the default set that come with the
Console. You can, however, disable any default task that you don’t
want to run.