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www.gateway.com 5 To open your notebook's main menu, click (Start). From that menu, you can run programs and search for files. For more information on using your notebook's menus, see "Using Windows" and "Customizing Windows" in the online User Guide. Waking up your notebook When you have not used your notebook for several minutes or if you close the LCD panel without turning off your notebook, it may enter a power-saving mode called Sleep. While in Sleep mode, the power indicator flashes. If your notebook is in Sleep mode, press the power button to "wake" it up. Tip For more information about Sleep mode, see "Changing power modes" on page 54. Turning off your notebook Putting your notebook into Sleep mode is the easiest way to power down your notebook. Although it does not turn your notebook completely off, it turns off or slows down most system operations to save power. Sleep saves your desktop layout so the next time you restore power the programs are laid out just as you left them. Waking your notebook from a Sleep state is much faster than turning on your notebook after it has been turned completely off. Hibernate mode is an alternative to Sleep mode. In Hibernate mode, your notebook is turned completely off. When you wake your notebook from Hibernate mode, however, the programs that were running when your notebook entered Hibernate mode are running just as you left them. To put your notebook to sleep: • Click (Start), then click (power). The notebook saves your session and partially shuts down to save power. -OR- Press FN+F3. Tip You can change the Sleep mode from the standard Sleep mode (default) to Hybrid Sleep. For more information about Sleep mode, see "Changing power modes" on page 54. 21

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To open your notebook’s main menu, click
(
Start
).
From that menu, you can run programs and search for
files. For more information on using your notebook’s
menus, see “Using Windows” and “Customizing
Windows” in the online
User Guide
.
Waking up your notebook
When you have not used your notebook for several minutes
or if you close the LCD panel without turning off your
notebook, it may enter a power-saving mode called
Sleep
.
While in Sleep mode, the power indicator flashes. If your
notebook is in Sleep mode, press the power button to “wake”
it up.
Turning off your notebook
Putting your notebook into Sleep mode is the easiest way to
power down your notebook. Although it does not turn your
notebook completely off, it turns off or slows down most
system operations to save power. Sleep saves your desktop
layout so the next time you restore power the programs are
laid out just as you left them. Waking your notebook from a
Sleep state is much faster than turning on your notebook after
it has been turned completely off.
Hibernate mode is an alternative to Sleep mode. In Hibernate
mode, your notebook is turned completely off. When you
wake your notebook from Hibernate mode, however, the
programs that were running when your notebook entered
Hibernate mode are running just as you left them.
To put your notebook to sleep:
•
Click
(
Start
),
then click
(power). The
notebook saves your session and partially shuts down
to save power.
-OR-
Press
F
N
+
F3
.
Tip
For more information about Sleep mode, see
“Changing power modes”
on page 54
.
Tip
You can change the Sleep mode from the standard Sleep mode (default)
to Hybrid Sleep. For more information about Sleep mode, see
“Changing power
modes” on page 54
.