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Customizing your notebook
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Activating power management profiles
PowerPanel provides several predefined
power management profiles
. Each profile consists of a group of
power management settings that are designed to meet specific power management goals, ranging from
maximum power management to no power management.
Main preset profiles
Other preset profiles
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Description
Maximum Battery Life –
Provides power saving features to
give you maximum battery life and good performance. It
reduces the brightness of the display and puts the system
into
Standby
mode after a specified time period.
Maximum Performance –
Provides the best system
performance while still conserving power.
AC Power –
The power management state when AC power
is in use. PowerPanel automatically loads the AC profile
unless you disable this feature.
Power Management Off –
Turns off all power
management features such as
Standby
and
Hibernate
modes.
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Description
Word Processing –
Optimizes power management with longer
timeouts on the hard disk and display screen. You can also
establish settings for LCD (Video) Standby, Hard Disk Standby,
and Standby to optimize power management for your system.
