Power Management Settings: Dell Latitude LS Portable Computers User's Guide

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Power Management Settings: Dell™ Latitude™ LS Portable Computers User's Guide

Experimenting With Power

Standby Mode

Conservation

 

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.

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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Dell PP01S Experimenting With Power Conservation, Using Key Combinations, Identifies the power management key combinations