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Mobile Computing
Monitoring battery power
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Whether you use any optional devices to which the
battery supplies power, such as a PC Card
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Where you are working—since operating time decreases
at low temperatures
There are various ways in which you can conserve power and
extend the operating time of your battery:
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Enable Standby or Hibernation, which saves power when
you turn off the computer and turn it back on again.
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Use Toshiba’s power-saving options.
These power-saving options control the way in which the
computer is configured. By using them, you can greatly
increase the length of time you can use the computer before
you need to recharge the battery.
Toshiba has combined these options into preset power usage
modes.
Power profiles in Windows XP
In Windows
®
XP, you can choose from predefined power
profile or select your own combination of power management
options. The following steps describe this procedure.
If you try to use the power management feature in Windows, a
message tells you to close the Microsoft power options and
use the Toshiba Power Management instead.
1
Open the
Start
menu, click
Control Panel
, then
Performance and Maintenance
.
2
Click on the
Toshiba
Power Management
icon.
3
Select an appropriate profile for your work environment,
or create your own custom profile.
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