If you have an electronic mail system available to you, send
E-mail rather than memos. Not only is this faster, but you’ll
save paper and storage space too.
Use recycled paper whenever you can and, if possible, reuse
or recycle used paper instead of throwing it away.
Using Your Green PC Feature
Your computer places the CPU, the hard disk drive, an Energy
Star compliant monitor, or all of these components into a power-
saving mode when the keyboard or mouse has been inactive for
5 minutes. Using the SETUP program, you can customize this
timer and set up additional energy saving options. (See “Setting
the Green PC Options” in Appendix B for instructions on setting
these features.)
Three power-saving modes are available: Doze, Standby, and
Suspend. These modes provide progressively increased power
conservation and affect progressively more components in your
system. The power-saving operations performed by your
computer in each of these modes are summarized in the table
below.
Power-saving modes
Mode
Power-saving operations
Doze
Slows down the processor
Standby
Lowers the processor speed further and the monitor screen
goes blank (the monitor is placed in a low power consumption
mode only if it is Energy Star compliant)
Suspend
Stops the processor clock, powers down the hard disk drive(s),
and the monitor screen goes blank (the monitor is placed in a
low power consumption mode only if it is Energy Star
compliant)
To resume activity when your system is in a power-saving
mode, press a keyboard key or move the mouse.
2-6 Using Your
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