Power and Power-Up Modes

Tablet mode

Enter your password by tapping the on-screen keyboard using the Tablet PC Pen.

Figure 6-5 On-screen keyboard

■The beep sounds when tapping the on-screen keyboard with the Tablet PC Pen. An * (asterisk) is displayed after “Password =” and one character is input for every tapping.

Register your password to the computer in the Laptop mode using the standard keyboard. Refer to TOSHIBA Password Utility, in this chapter for details.

Power-up modes

The computer has three different power-up modes as follows:

■Boot Mode: The computer will shut down without saving data - in view of this you must always save your work before you turn the computer off.

■Hibernation Mode: Data in memory will be saved to the hard disk drive.

■Sleep Mode: Data will be maintained in the computer’s memory.

Please refer to the sections Turning on the power and Turning off the power in Chapter 1, Getting Started for further information.

Windows utilities

You can configure various settings associated with both Sleep Mode and Hibernation Mode within the Power Options (to access it, Start -> Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Power Options).

Hot keys

You can use the Fn + F3 hot key to enter Sleep Mode or Fn + F4 to enter Hibernation Mode - please refer to Chapter 5, The Keyboard for further details.

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