Customizing Your VAIO Computer
Using Sleep Mode
Sleep mode turns off the LCD screen and places the hard disk drive and the CPU into a low power consumption mode. The
orange power light is on during this mode.
!
Turn off your computer if you do not intend to use it for a long period of time.
To activate Sleep mode
Click
Start
, the arrow next to the
Lock
button, and
Sleep
.
✍
When your computer is in Sleep mode, you cannot insert a disc.
Alternatively, you can press the sleep button on the wireless keyboard or the remote commander to place your computer into Sleep mode.
To return to Normal mode
❑
Press the power button on your computer.
❑
Press the sleep button on the wireless keyboard or the remote commander, or the space bar on the wireless keyboard.
!
If you press and hold the power button for more than four seconds, your computer will turn off automatically. You will lose all unsaved data.
If the computer is not used for a certain period of time, it will enter Sleep mode. To modify this, you can change the Sleep
mode settings.
To change the Sleep mode settings
1
Click
Start
,
Control Panel
,
Hardware and Sound
, and
Power Options
.
2
Click
Change plan settings
under the current power plan.
3
Change the time to put the computer to sleep and click
Save Changes
.
