| Customizing Your Notebook Computer | n N 29 |
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About the Software on your Notebook Computer
✍When you use the battery pack as power source, your system selects the Maximum Battery Life power management profile by default. If you select a different power management profile while using battery power, the same profile will be automatically selected the next time you use the battery pack to power your computer.
PowerPanel
Controlling Power Management
The PowerPanel utility controls the power management of your notebook computer and provides key information about system activity and battery life. In combination with BatteryScope, the automatic power management selects the most advantageous profiles, or lets you customize the profiles you choose, according to your own needs, with the goal of extended battery life.
PowerPanel main features
❑Automatic Profile Selection (APS) based on the currently active application
❑Ability to select special Power Profiles manually from the menu
❑Ability to edit and create new profiles
❑A toolbar shared with BatteryScope
❑Works in harmony with Windows settings.
To activate PowerPanel
When you start the computer, the PowerPanel icon appears in the task tray by default.
❑When pointing on the PowerPanel icon, you will see a tooltip with the active Power Management profile.
❑You can select a power profile from the menu or a Power Management profile by
❑You can use the PowerPanel’s toolbar as well:
1 Right click the taskbar at the bottom of the screen.
