How do I change the automated task default schedule?

Please read the help section PCCare Settings before attempting to change any scheduled task.

There are three scheduling intervals for tasks managed by PCCare:

DAILY or WEEKLY task setting

The tasks that may be run Daily or Weekly share a common control. These tasks include the Anti-Virus Management tasks, the Internet Folder Cleanup and Correct System Clock tasks.

1. Click the drop down control under the label Schedule to run:
   The choices are:
   
   every day
   every Sunday
   every Monday
   every Tuesday
   every Wednesday
   every Thursday
   every Saturday
   

   Scroll up or down until the scheduling option you wish is highlighted and release the mouse button.

2. Next select the hour to run the task. Click the drop down control under the hour column:
   The choices are displayed using the 12-hour time format:
   
   1
   2
   3
   4
   5
   6
   7
   8
   9
   10
   11
   12
   

   Scroll up or down until the scheduling option you wish is highlighted and release the mouse button

3. Next set the minutes past the hour to run the task. Click the drop down control next to the minutes column:
   The choices are displayed using 10 minute increments:
   
   00
   10
   20
   30
   40
   50
   

   Scroll up or down until the scheduling option you wish is highlighted and release the mouse button

4. Next set the morning/evening selector for the 12-hour time. Click the drop down control next to AM/PM
   The choices are:
   
   AM - 00:00 - 11:59; midnight until 11:59 (just before noon)
   PM - 12:00 - 23:59; noon until 11:59 (just before midnight)
   

   Scroll up or down until the scheduling option you wish is highlighted and release the mouse button.
   

Choosing between a Weekly or Monthly Schedule

The tasks that may be run Weekly or Monthly share a common control. When this is chosen, either the weekly control as above is displayed or monthly control is displayed. Tasks that use this control include Scan Disk and Defragment Hard Drive.

To choose between Weekly or Monthly:

• Click the Radio button o next to Weekly or Monthly.
  If you choose o Weekly, the same control as above for daily/weekly is shown but without the every Day option. Follow the instructions above to set the day of the week, hour, minute and morning/night indicators.

  If you choose o Monthly, you get a different set of controls.

  PCCare will display a calendar widget with 31 days, but only the first 28 (1-28) are valid, the last days (29-31) are not selectable. Not every month has 31 days, not every month even has 29 days. In order to maintain the consistency of the selected date, you can only use the date range 1-28. If you attempt to select a date in the range {29,30,31} you will be prompted to select a date in the range 1-28.

• Set the occurrence interval. Click the drop down control next to the work every:
  The choices are:
  
  " 01 02 03 04 05 06 07"
  " 08 09 10 11 12 13 14"
  " 15 16 17 18 19 20 21"
  " 22 23 24 25 26 27 28"
  " 29 30 31 "
  

  Scroll in the calendar tool until the day you wish is highlighted and release the mouse button.

  Please note that only the dates in the range 1-28 are valid, the 29th, 30th and 31st are present but not selectable.

• Next set the hour, minute and morning/evening period as in the daily/weekly task schedule above.

To save the Task and Schedule changes and Update the Settings

Once you have selected the task options and schedule as you desire, you must save the changes so PCCare will execute the tasks at the time you desire. Next to each task setting dialog is a control box with the words "Update Settings".

Click the "Update Settings" button, a confirmation dialog asking you if you want to save the changes will be displayed.

• Click the YES or OK button to save the new changes, Note the "Currently scheduled to occur" field will change to the new time interval you have just set.
• click the NO or CANCEL button to discard the edited changes and retain the existing schedule. Note the "Currently scheduled to occur" field will not change.

To exit the Settings Page

Once you have selected and saved the task options and schedule as you desire, you may move from the settings page back to the Status Page by several methods (please refer to the PCCare Navigation Help Page):

• Click the Navigation TAB for PCCare Status or PCCare help at the top of the PCCare Settings page.
• Alternatively, you may click the lower navigation bar PCCare Status or PCCare Help URL at the bottom of the page.

If you wish to exit PCCare, simply close or exit your browser. The Task Automation layer is still running with your new schedule. You may check back later to view the status or details of the tasks you have set by any of the methods in the Getting Started help page.