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Monitoring main battery power

2Select an appropriate profile for your work environment or create your own custom profile.

By changing the options that appear in the Power Saver Properties dialog box and clicking OK, you can reconfigure that function. You may choose a power-saving management strategy to best suit your computing needs. If you are running on batteries and the programs that you are using do not require a lot of system resources, you may experience longer work sessions by enabling the Normal setting. Any options that you change become the active settings when you exit the program. (You do not have to restart your system before they become active settings.)

For more information, see “Toshiba Power Saver” on page 179.

Using a hot key to set the Power Profile

You may use a hot key to set the Power Profile.To set the Power Profile:1Press Fn and F2 simultaneously to display the Power Profile pop-up window.(Sample Image) Power Profile mode pop-up window

2While continuing to press Fn, press F2 until you select the desired Power Profile.

The Power Profile options are: Full Power, High Power, Normal, AC Optimized, DVD Playback, Presentation, and Long Life.