Suspending Your Computer - HP Pavilion 8290 User Manual

Suspending Your
Computer
As an alternative to shutting down your computer,
you can put your PC in Suspend mode. When you
suspend your computer, it goes into a low-power
state and your display is blank as if it's turned
off. The next time you use your computer, any
applications, folders, and documents that were
open before you suspended the computer will be
ready and waiting for you. With Suspend, you can
save electricity without having to wait for your PC
to go through the normal startup routine when you
turn on the computer.
Suspend also allows faxes to come through
to your computer, and enables your PC to
automatically retrieve your e-mail messages and
download information from the World Wide Web
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(if you have programmed your computer to do so).
To suspend the computer:
1
Press the Suspend button on the front of the
computer. The screen goes dark, and the
computer goes into Suspend mode.
2
When you want to use your computer again,
just start to use the keyboard or mouse, or
press the Suspend button. The screen display
will reappear just as you left it.
Another way to suspend your computer is to
choose Suspend on the Windows 95 Start menu.
Note:
If you use an application that wakes your
computer when it is suspended (such as when a fax
program receives an incoming fax), the computer will not
go back into Suspend mode automatically, unless you
configure your PC to use the Auto Suspend feature. For
information on enabling Auto Suspend, see "Setting Auto
Suspend in the BIOS" on page 68.