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Power Management Settings: Dell™ Latitude™ LS
Portable Computers User's Guide
Experimenting With Power
Conservation Standby Mode
Using Key Combinations Suspend-to-Disk (Hibernate) Mode
Closing the Display Power Management Properties for
Windows 98
Suspend Mode Power Management Properties for
Windows NT

Experimenting With Power Conservation

In general, the lower the value you set for each power conservation feature, the longer the
battery's charge lasts. On the other hand, setting high values tends to optimize the computer's
performance.
To evaluate the way that different settings affect how long you can operate the computer on
battery power versus the relative efficiency of how the software performs, experiment as
follows:
Use the computer with all the options set at their default values.
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Use the computer with all the options disabled or set to Off.●
Use the computer with all the options set to their minimum or maximum values.●

Using Key Combinations

Table 1 identifies the power management key combinations.
NOTE: To use key combinations on an external keyboard, enable the External
Hot-Key option in the system setup program, and press <Scroll Lock> instead of <Fn>.
Table 1. Key Combinations
Feature Activate/Deactivate
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