Last night I went in and recreated a scheduled scan in Avast Free as you suggested. I set it to run about 10 minutes after entering it. I set it to run weekly , tuesday (yesterday), quick scan. When the time came, nothing happened. I tried again and this time I used smart scan, and it worked at the scheduled time. Given that I changed the day to Weds. (today) at 9 am. At 9 am today, nothing ran.
After it did not run today at 9am, I went back into Avast and set the time for 10 am ... It just ran at the 10am time.
I am baffled as to what works and what does not. How can I troubleshoot or correct this?
Thank you in advance for your help ...