Customizing Your Notebook Computer
PowerPanel
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PowerPanel
Controlling Power Management
The PowerPanel utility controls the power management of your notebook computer
and provides key information about system activity and battery life. In combination
with BatteryScope, the automatic power management selects the most advantageous
profiles, or lets you customize the profiles you choose, according to your own needs,
with the goal of extended battery life.
PowerPanel main features
Automatic Profile Selection (APS) based on the currently active application
Ability to select special Power Profiles manually from the menu
Ability to edit and create new profiles
A toolbar shared with BatteryScope
Works in harmony with Windows settings.
To activate PowerPanel
When you start the computer, the
PowerPanel
icon appears in the task tray by
default.
When pointing on the
PowerPanel
icon, you will see a tooltip with the active
Power Management profile.
You can select a power profile from the menu or a Power Management profile by
right-clicking this icon.
You can use the PowerPanel’s toolbar as well:
When you use the battery pack
as power source, your system
selects the Maximum Battery
Life power management profile
by default. If you select a
different power management
profile while using battery
power, the same profile will be
automatically selected the next
time you use the battery pack
to power your computer.
