Starting or stopping a scan task

Regardless of the selected scan task run mode, you can start or stop a scan task at any time.

To start or stop a scan task:

  1. Open the main application window.
  2. Click the Tasks button in the lower part of the main application window.

    The Tasks window opens.

  3. Click the section with the name of the scan task.

    The selected section is expanded.

  4. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Start button if you want to run the scan task.

      The task progress status that is displayed under the name of this scan task changes to Running.

    • If you want to stop the scan task, select Stop in the context menu.

      The task progress status that is displayed under the name of this scan task changes to Stopped.

To start or stop a scan task when the simplified application interface is displayed:

  1. Right-click to bring up the context menu of the application icon that is in the taskbar notification area.
  2. In the Tasks drop-down list in the context menu, do one of the following:
    • select a non-running scan task to start it
    • select a running scan task to stop it
    • select a paused scan task to resume or restart it
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