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- Power Management
Hibernation (Save-to-Disk) Feature
The Hibernation feature saves the contents of your notebook’s system memory to the hard drive as a part
of the Power/Suspend/Resume mode. You can enable or disable this feature.
Enable or Disable the Hibernation Feature
Windows XP:
The default settings are not enabled. To enable or disable the Hibernation feature follow
these steps:
1
From the Start menu, select
Settings
, and then select
Control Panel
.
2
From the Control Panel select
Power Options
.
3
Select the
Hibernate
tab. Select the box to enable or disable this feature.
Windows Vista:
The default settings are not enabled. To enable or disable the Hibernation feature, follow
these steps:
1
From the Start menu, select
Control Panel
>
Power Options
.
2
Select
Choose what the power button does
or
Choose what closing the lid does
, then make your selection
(Do Nothing, Sleep, Hibernate, or Shut Down).
Windows Power Management
The Power Options icon in the Windows Control Panel allows you to configure some of the power
management settings. For example, you can use Power Options to set the timeout values for turning off
the display and hard disks whether you are running the notebook on battery or one of the adapters.
Restarting the System
If your system is on and you need to restart it, be sure that you use the following procedure.
Windows Vista:
1
Click the [Start] button, and then move the mouse over the small arrow at the bottom right of the right-hand
pane.
2
Select
Restart
from the list.
