Bad GUI for schedule

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EagleOne

The "Every day" checkbox makes no sense when it's
duplicated by the "Schedule scan" dropdown box. I
had "Every Day" deselected so that the weekly checkboxes
appeared. Clicked on Sunday thinking I would get a scan
every Sunday. But nope, it still schedules it daily at
the given time because the "Schedule scan" dropdown box
still says daily. Please don't force two buttons for one
setting. It's confusing.

... Jim ..
 
EagleOne said:
The "Every day" checkbox makes no sense when it's
duplicated by the "Schedule scan" dropdown box. I
had "Every Day" deselected so that the weekly checkboxes
appeared. Clicked on Sunday thinking I would get a scan
every Sunday. But nope, it still schedules it daily at
the given time because the "Schedule scan" dropdown box
still says daily. Please don't force two buttons for one
setting. It's confusing.

.. Jim ..
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I would suspect Microsoft would drop Giant's use of an internal
scheduler inside the program and instead have the program add an even to
Scheduled Tasks (i.e., use Task Scheduler that is already available for
running scheduled tasks and which far more options than the current
scheduler inside of Giant's old code). Once MSAS adds the scheduled
event, you could tweak that event as you want regarding recurrence,
repetition (whether cyclic or separate repeat events), stop when no
longer idle, don't run until idle for N minutes, and so forth.
 
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