{"id":8918,"date":"2026-10-19T16:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/support-articles\/elements-endpoint-protection-scheduled-or-manual-scan-takes-a-very-long-time-how-to-make-it-faster\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T13:07:14","slug":"elements-endpoint-protection-scheduled-or-manual-scan-takes-a-very-long-time-how-to-make-it-faster","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/support-articles\/elements-endpoint-protection-scheduled-or-manual-scan-takes-a-very-long-time-how-to-make-it-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Elements Endpoint Protection scheduled or manual scan takes a very long time, how to make it faster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>Elements Endpoint Protection manual or scheduled scanning is slow and it takes a very long time, how to change the settings so that it takes shorter amount of time?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>There are a few settings in the Elements Endpoint Protection profile that can make a scheduled scan to be quicker.<\/p>\n<p>The settings are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disable <strong>Run scanning as low priority\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Disable <strong>Scan inside compressed files\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Enable <strong>Scan only known file types during scheduled scanning<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By disabling <strong>Run scanning as low priority<\/strong>, the scheduled scan scan will take more CPU resources but it will also scan the files faster.<\/p>\n<p>By disabling <strong>Scan inside compressed files<\/strong>, the scheduled scan will skip archived files which saves a lot of CPU resources and does not decrease the security on the device since files inside compressed files aren&#39;t harmful until they are uncompressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By enabling <strong>Scan only file types during scheduled scanning<\/strong>, it will skip certain file types.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for Manual scanning, you can make sure that <strong>Scanning priority <\/strong>is set at <strong>Normal priority <\/strong>and that <strong>Scan inside compressed files <\/strong>is disabled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How to change these settings:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the Elements Security Center portal<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the <strong>Security configurations &gt; Profiles <\/strong>page<\/li>\n<li>Open the profile that is in use on the devices<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <strong>Manual scanning <\/strong>settings page<\/li>\n<li>Here you can edit the previously mentioned settings<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Save profile<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elements Endpoint Protection manual or scheduled scanning is slow and it takes a very long time, how to change the settings so that it takes shorter amount of time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-8918","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000006752","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-19 13:07:14","import_hash":"787fdc75b3b4cc7e14eee89f2a3bf982cb2cbce0","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/8918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}