Gateway Solo 9300, User Manual

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Managing Power
Changing power settings
You can completely customize power settings from the Windows Control
Panel by selecting power schemes, setting power alarms, adjusting advanced
power settings, and enabling Hibernate mode. For information on extending
battery life while you are traveling, see “Travel tips” on page 126.
Power schemes (groups of power settings) let you change power saving options
such as when the LCD or hard drive is automatically turned off. You can also
select one of the defined power schemes or create a custom power scheme.
Power alarms can alert you when the battery charge is low.
Advanced power settings let you assign the power button and Standby key to
activate different power saving modes. You can also set which power saving
mode is activated when you close the LCD panel.
Hibernate mode (also called save to disk ) writes all current memory information
to the hard drive, then turns the notebook completely off. The next time you
turn on the notebook, it reads memory information from the hard drive and
opens the programs and documents that were open when you activated
Hibernate mode.