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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 and Windows 2000, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) provides both manual and automated tools for reducing power consumption. • You can set power management options to occur automatically, based on timeout values that you have entered. See "To use automated power management" in the Reference Guide. • You can also invoke power management options manually at any time by pressing the appropriate key. See "To use manual power management" below. 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. Press the blue standby button. Press the blue standby 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 and Windows 2000, standby and suspend are equivalent terms.) 28 Startup Guide

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Traveling with Your Computer
Managing Power Consumption
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Startup 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 and Windows 2000, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
(ACPI) provides both manual and automated tools for reducing power consumption.
•
You can set power management options to occur automatically, based on timeout
values that you have entered. See “To use automated power management” in the
Reference Guide.
•
You can also invoke power management options manually at any time by pressing the
appropriate key. See “To use manual power management” below.
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
Press the blue standby button.
Resume
Press the blue standby 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 and Windows 2000,
standby
and
suspend
are equivalent terms.)