Mcafee question

Hi
I have Mcafee Live-safe Internet security. when ever I do a full virus scan it takes a long time to do so I was chatting with there live chat technical support and told me for the full virus scan to move A long. my Computer would have to stay active if it's not the full virus scan would pause. can anyone please tell me how to keep my Computer active with having to keep clicking on my mouse or touching my keyboard? Thank you for any help on this. I have Windows 10 home 64 bit

BDman said:

Hi
I have Mcafee Live-safe Internet security. when ever I do a full virus scan it takes a long time to do so I was chatting with there live chat technical support and told me for the full virus scan to move A long. my Computer would have to stay active if it's not the full virus scan would pause. can anyone please tell me how to keep my Computer active with having to keep clicking on my mouse or touching my keyboard? Thank you for any help on this. I have Windows 10 home 64 bit

This doesn't make sense. Why not simply run the scan when you're going to sleep at night? Then you won't even notice how long it takes.

Also, your first/biggest mistake is using Mcafee to begin with.
Why don't you use Windows Defender?

However, if you persist on using Mcafee you can disable your sleep settings while you run your scans. That will technically keep your system "active" while the scan runs.

Why Mcafee is unable to inhibit system sleep while it's running is ... let's not even go down that road.

Respectfully BDman, you really should get rid of that piece of crapware that is Mcafee and use something more appropriate/efficient.

Hi HtconeM9user so you do not have to keep your Computer active to run a full virus scan ?

I'm glad you were here to help htconem9user. It's always better if the person who helps actually uses the software and isn't an unabashed hater of it.