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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 SE and Windows ME, 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. • Power management options may be invoked manually at any time by pressing the appropriate key. See "To use manual power management". To use automated power management System standby, monitor, and hard disk timeouts automatically occur based on the values set in the Power Management Properties window (Power Options Properties in Windows ME). The following tables describe the power management timeouts you can set in Windows. Turn off monitor Action When Resume Turns off the display. This not only conserves battery power, but also extends the life of the display. No activity of the keyboard or mouse for the specified interval. Press any key or move the pointer to return to your current session. Turn off hard disks Action When Resume Turns off only the hard disk drive. This is usually set to occur shortly after the monitor is turned off. No hard disk access for the specified interval. The next hard disk activity will return to your current session. 50 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 SE and Windows ME, 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.
•
Power management options may be invoked manually at any time by pressing the
appropriate key. See “To use manual power management”.
To use automated power management
System standby, monitor, and hard disk timeouts automatically occur based on the values
set in the Power Management Properties window (Power Options Properties in Windows
ME). The following tables describe the power management timeouts you can set in
Windows.
Turn off monitor
Action
Turns off the display. This not only
conserves battery power, but also
extends the life of the display.
When
No activity of the keyboard or mouse for
the specified interval.
Resume
Press any key or move the pointer to
return to your current session.
Turn off hard disks
Action
Turns off only the hard disk drive. This is
usually set to occur shortly after the
monitor is turned off.
When
No hard disk access for the specified
interval.
Resume
The next hard disk activity will return to
your current session.