Sharp PC-W100T Operation Manual page 47

Activating Power Management
In addition to superior performance and an enhanced feature set, your notebook
incorporates sophisticated power management features which allow you to extend
battery life. You should think of your notebook's power conservation features as
being organized into several, sometimes overlapping, levels of management, which
together provide both manual and automatic control over which components of the
notebook are drawing current at any given time.
Changing Power Configuration Settings
You can configure power management settings using the Power menu of the Setup
Utility. Power settings allow you to control current drain by peripheral devices and
put them in suspend mode when not in use. By continually monitoring the state of
these devices, and shutting off the flow of current to idle devices, battery life can be
preserved.
You can access the Power menu of the Setup Utility to set power management
parameters in the following way:
Press the F2 key when prompted on screen just after you have turned on or reset
the notebook and before Windows starts. Then press the left or right arrow key to
select Power menu at the top of the Setup Utility screen.
Figure 3-1. Setup Utility Power Configuration Screen
Using Your Notebook 3-1
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