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Managing power settings, Selecting a power plan - battery life

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Managing power settings Your UMPC allows you to control and manage the power settings to save battery power, maximize system performance, or to achieve both. Selecting a power plan Your UMPC provides you with power plans, which are collections of power management settings. These power plans make use of the ASUS Power4 Gear eXtreme, an ASUS utility that allows you to adjust system settings such as display brightness and CPU frequency to maximize performance as well as to extend battery life. To select a power plan: 1. From your UMPC screen, go to > Control Panel > Classic View > Power Options. 2. Select a power plan from these three existing power plans: Power Plan Power4 Gear Entertainment Power4 Gear Battery Saving Power4 Gear High Performance Description Provides high performance and saves battery power for online gaming or playing DVD. Provides the longest battery life and reduces your UMPC's performance where possible. Maximizes your UMPC's performance, but provides the shortest battery life. 3. To adjust the plan's settings, click Change plan settings. You may adjust the plan's sleep and display settings when your UMPC is on battery or plugged in. For more advanced settings, click Change advanced power settings. 3535

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Managing power settings
Your UMPC allows you to control and manage the power settings to save battery
power, maximize system performance, or to achieve both.
Selecting a power plan
Your UMPC provides you with power plans, which are collections of power
management settings. These power plans make use of the ASUS Power4 Gear
eXtreme, an ASUS utility that allows you to adjust system settings such as display
brightness and CPU frequency to maximize performance as well as to extend battery
life.
To select a power plan:
1. From your UMPC screen, go to
>
Control Panel
>
Classic View
>
Power
Options.
2. Select a power plan from these three existing power plans:
Power Plan
Description
Power4 Gear Entertainment
Provides high performance and saves battery
power for online gaming or playing DVD.
Power4 Gear Battery Saving
Provides the longest battery life and reduces
your UMPC’s performance where possible.
Power4 Gear High Performance
Maximizes your UMPC’s performance, but
provides the shortest battery life.
3. To adjust the plan’s settings, click
Change plan settings
. You may adjust the plan’s
sleep and display settings when your UMPC is
on battery
or
plugged in
.
For more advanced settings, click
Change advanced power settings
.