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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 Suspend/Resume mode. You can enable or disable this feature.
Enable or Disable the Hibernation Feature
To enable or disable the Hibernation feature follow these steps:
1
From the Start menu, select Control Panel.
1
From the
View by
: dropdown menu, select one of the icon views.
2
Click on Power Options.
3
In the left panel, select either “Choose what the power button does” or “Choose what closing the lid does. By
default, these are set to
Sleep
.
4
Form the four dropdown menus, selct when you want the system to hibernate. Select
Hibernate
, then click
[Save changes].
Windows Power Management
The Power Options icon located in the Windows Control Panel allows you to configure some of the power
management settings. For example, you can use the Power Options to set the timeout values for turning
off the display and hard disks whether you are running the notebook on battery power or one of the
adapters.
■
I
F
YOUR
NOTEBOOK
IS
ACTIVELY
ACCESSING
INFORMATION
WHEN
YOU
ENTER
S
TANDBY
OR
H
IBERNATION
MODE
,
CHANGES
TO
OPEN
FILES
ARE
NOT
LOST
. F
ILES
ARE
LEFT
OPEN
AND
MEMORY
IS
KEPT
ACTIVE
DURING
S
TANDBY
MODE
OR
THE
MEMORY
IS
TRANSFERRED
TO
THE
INTERNAL
HARD
DRIVE
DURING
H
IBERNATION
MODE
.
■
T
HE
MAIN
ADVANTAGE
OF
USING
H
IBERNATION
IS
THAT
POWER
IS
NOT
REQUIRED
TO
MAINTAIN
YOUR
DATA
. T
HIS
IS
PARTICULARLY
IMPORTANT
IF
YOU
WILL
BE
LEAVING
YOUR
NOTEBOOK
IN
A
SUSPENDED
STATE
FOR
A
PROLONGED
PERIOD
OF
TIME
. T
HE
DRAWBACK
OF
USING
H
IBERNATION
MODE
IS
THAT
IT
LENGTHENS
THE
POWER
DOWN
AND
POWER
UP
SEQUENCES
AND
RESETS
PERIPHERAL
DEVICES
.
