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Customizing Your Computer
Changing power settings
You can change power management settings, such as the power button
function and power-saving timers, by changing power settings in Windows.
You can also adjust power schemes, adjust advanced power settings, and
enable Hibernate mode.
Power schemes (groups of power settings) let you change power saving options
such as when the monitor or hard drive is automatically turned off. You can
also select one of the defined power schemes or create a custom power scheme.
Advanced power settings let you assign different power saving modes to the
power button.
Hibernate mode (also called save to disk) writes all current memory (RAM)
information to the hard drive, then turns the computer completely off. The
next time you turn on the computer, it reads the memory information from
the hard drive and opens the programs and documents that were open when
you activated hibernate.
To change the power scheme:
1 Click
Start
, then select
Settings
, then
Control Panel
. The Control Panel
window opens.
2
If you do not see the
Power Options
icon, click
view all Control Panel options
.
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