Toshiba Portégé 650CT User Manual page 120

Running the Computer on Battery Power
Starting Again Using Resume Mode
If you want to turn your computer off and on again without spend-
ing all the time it normally takes to start your computer up again,
Windows 95's Suspend and Toshiba's Resume Mode are for you.
These features provide a sort of electronic bookmark, storing the
current state of the computer, including all your open files and pro-
grams, in memory until you turn the computer on again.
Suspending the computer uses power supplied by the backup bat-
tery to store this information. However, the backup battery will
eventually discharges completely, if it is left unplugged for more
than eight hours. When the backup battery discharges, your infor-
mation is lost. So, although suspending your computer tempo-
rarily stores your work in memory, you should still save all your
work before you turn the computer off.
There are two ways to suspend the computer:
Click the Start button, then click Suspend.
Turn on Toshiba's Resume Mode and press the power button.
The Windows 95 Suspend feature is the easiest way to suspend
the computer. However, you'll have to use Resume Mode if you
want to configure your system to:
automatically suspend/resume when you open/close the dis-
play panel. This option is available through the Start Up
Options tab of the Toshiba System Control Panel, or through
TSETUP.
turn off automatically when you haven't used it for a set
amount of time. This option is available through MaxTime or
TSETUP.
to suspend automatically when it detects an incoming call
through the fax/modem port. This option is available through
the Start Up Options tab of the Toshiba System Control Panel,
or through TSETUP.
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