INTRODUCTION
User's Manual
Heat dispersal To protect from overheating, the CPU has an internal temperature sensor. If the computer’s internal temperature rises to a certain level, the cooling fan is turned on or the processing speed is lowered. Use the Fan item of the Power Save Modes window in Power Saver.
Maximum | Turns on fan first, then if necessary |
Performance | lowers CPU processing speed. |
Performance | Uses a combination of fan and |
| lowering the CPU processing speed. |
Battery optimized | Lowers the CPU processing speed |
| first, then if necessary turns on the |
| fan. |
Utilities
This section describes preinstalled utilities and tells how to start them. For details on operations, refer to each utility’s online manual, help files or readme files.
TOSHIBAPowerSaver To access this power savings management program in Windows 2000, open the Control Panel and
HW Setup | This program lets you customize your hardware settings |
| according to the way you work with your computer and |
| the peripherals you use. To start the utility in Windows |
| 2000, open the Control Panel and |
| TOSHIBA HW Setup icon. In Windows XP, open the |
| Control Panel, click Printers and Other Hardware and click |
| the TOSHIBA HW Setup icon. |
This Windows program lets you define your own “short- | |
| cut” keys to quickly launch applications and speed your |
| work in Windows. To start the utility, click the Windows |
| Start button, point to Programs (Windows XP only, point |
| to All Programs), point to TOSHIBA Utilities and click Fn- |
| esse. |
Supervisor Password | This utility for Windows lets you register a Supervisor |
Utility for Windows | Password, which restricts access to HW Setup. |