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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Disabling idle sleep while a capture is in progress?

From: Tomasz Moń <desowin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 08:21:10 +0200
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 11:44 PM Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you're doing a long-running capture, 1) don't clamshell your machine in the middle and 2) leave it plugged in.

To avoid surprises on Windows, you might want to schedule the Windows
Update restart no earlier than the time by which you are finished with
your capture.