Sleep Manager; Accessing The Sleep Manager - Acer TravelMate 7000 User Manual

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Sleep Manager

Notebooks usually feature built-in power-saving functions. In addition to the
normal standby mode for power-saving, our notebooks are also capable of a
power management feature called 0-volt suspend to hard disk. When a
suspend event occurs, this built-in function saves all the system's current
status onto your hard disk in the form of a file. The system then shuts off
the power. When the user resumes (e.g., opening the display), the system
will restore the data from the hard disk and resume from where you left off
upon leaving suspend mode.
Sleep Manager is a utility that reserves hard disk space needed to
successfully perform the suspend-to-disk feature. The user can use this
utility to create a contiguous area that resides on the hard disk. Once the
reserved space is created, the notebook will be capable of the "0-Volt
Suspend to Hard Disk" feature. User can also use this utility to remove the
reserved space from the disk. In this case, the machine will not be able to
enter 0-volt suspend mode.
Sleep Manager is functionally-connected with the Advanced Power
Management (APM) system of Microsoft Windows. Sleep Manager uses
many advanced APM functions. Sleep Manager is capable of auto-create
and auto-recover features. If the system memory size was changed or the
reserved space on the hard disk was corrupted, Sleep Manager will
reallocate the hard disk space for you automatically.
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Accessing the Sleep Manager

There are two ways to bring up the Sleep Manager:
Taskbar. Double-click on the Sleep Manager status icon if enabled.
Start menu
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Software
Click on the Start button.
Select Programs.
Select 0V Suspend Utility.
Select Sleep Manager.
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