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Traveling with Your Computer Managing Power Consumption Managing Power Consumption When you are not using your computer, you will want to maximize battery operating time without compromising performance. It is not necessary to turn the computer off in order to reduce power consumption and extend battery life. With Windows 98, Advanced Power Management (APM) provides both manual and automated tools for reducing power consumption. • Power management options can be set to occur automatically, based on timeout values that you have entered. See "Managing Power Consumption" in the User's Guide. • Power management options may be invoked manually at any time by pressing the appropriate key. See "To use manual power management" on page 38. To use manual power management You can shut down your computer manually whenever you need to with any of the following three levels of shutdown. System standby Action When Resume Turns off the display and hard disk drive. Fn+F3 or Fn+F4 or Start, Shut Down, Standby. Press the blue power button to return to your current session. System standby can also occur automatically when the timeout setting in the Power Management Properties window is reached. (In Windows 98, there is no difference between Standby and Suspend.) 38 Setup Guide

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Traveling with Your Computer
Managing Power Consumption
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Setup Guide
Managing Power Consumption
When you are not using your computer, you will want to maximize battery operating
time without compromising performance. It is not necessary to turn the computer off in
order to reduce power consumption and extend battery life.
With Windows 98, Advanced Power Management (APM) provides both manual and
automated tools for reducing power consumption.
•
Power management options can be set to occur automatically, based on timeout
values that you have entered. See “Managing Power Consumption” in the
User’s
Guide.
•
Power management options may be invoked manually at any time by pressing the
appropriate key. See “To use manual power management” on page 38.
To use manual power management
You can shut down your computer manually whenever you need to with any of the
following three levels of shutdown.
System standby
Action
Turns off the display and hard disk drive.
When
Fn+F3 or Fn+F4 or Start, Shut Down,
Standby.
Resume
Press the blue power button to return to
your current session.
System standby can also occur automatically when the timeout setting in the Power
Management Properties window is reached. (In Windows 98, there is no difference
between Standby and Suspend.)