How to do a partial/most important files/memory-ram scan

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Hi Robert,
I will help you with the issue,
Yes, you can scan specific file or folder at a time
In AVG Main interface click settings button near  Scan Now option
And then click Scan Specific files and folders
You can scan your folders from there.
Please let us know if you face any issue .
Thank you

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I have avg free versio on this laptop. I have had one form of avg on both my work or personal computers for 15 years. I find it a lot better then most other anti-virus and anti-malware programs. But here is my question. This laptop is OLD 2200 celeron @900mhz with 2gb or ram and a 218 HD. I have the HD almost 85% full. But I defrag ever three days. Anyway use to have AVG scheduled to do a scan twice a week at 0300. That way I could leave my machine on before I went to bed and it would scan and shut itself down after the scan was finished. I have not had that schedule for months now ( for various non computer related real world reasons) This computer is getting really slow so I suspect that there is some malware or viruses operating in the background. Is there I way I can do a limited or partial scan of just the most important system files and ram and have that scan only operate for say 2 hours?. And if possible have AVG pick up where is left off at another time? I know that a full scan of my HD and RAM would take hours at this point.

Thanks in Advance.

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Thanks you Harihrarkumar. I know you can scan particular files and folders. But that was NOT my question. I wanted to know how I could do a partial scan of the most importand files on the computer OR of ram to see what is slowing down the machine so much OR a scan that would only run for a specific amount of time, say 2 hours.

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Hello Robert,

We are glad to help you with your concern. Yes you can scan particular files or folders using AVG. You can include or exclude the files that you want to scan using the below steps:

1)Open AVG program. click Options ->Advanced settings-> Scan.
2)In the left panel, please select "Specific files or folder" under scan option.
3)In the right panel, you can select the extension of the files that you want to include or exclude.

Please feel free to contact us for further assistance. Thank you.