windows 10 searching for updates forever

Launch CMD.exe as Administrator and then, where is the number of whole seconds of inactivity until the external hard drive powers down, and where = 0 means “never,” enter:

I suppose I might as well post the commands here, since, unlike references to the now apparently missing Power Options settings, they weren’t easy to find: (I found the commands documented on *one* site, and it *wasn’t* a Microsoft site.) It was pretty frustrating. On my ~4-month-old laptop, external hard drives had been going to sleep after around 10 seconds of inactivity (on mains power!), and the only way I could find to adjust that timeout was a couple of arcane commands run from an Administrator command window, one for the battery-power timeout and one for the mains-power timeout. The option to adjust auto-sleep for external USB hard drives appears to have been removed from the Power Options control panel, except that unlike driver updates, the USB-drive auto-sleep settings can’t be found anywhere else. I’m running WindHome right now, and I recently ran into a similar frustration. “hat would have been so wrong to also leave it in Device Manager … ?”

How are you going to research a driver for features and issues before installing it if you don’t have its version number and date? Showing the version or date of the driver is a big step down.”

Windows 10 searching for updates forever