Utilities - Toshiba Portege 2010 User Manual

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Utilities

This section describes preinstalled utilities and tells how to start them. For details
on operations, refer to each utility's online manual, help files or readme files.
TOSHIBA Power Saver To access this power savings management program in
HW Setup
Fn-esse
Supervisor Password
Utility for Windows
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To protect from overheating, the CPU has an internal
temperature sensor. If the computer's internal temperature
rises to a certain level, the cooling fan is turned on or the
processing speed is lowered. Use the Fan item of the
Power Save Modes window in Power Saver.
Maximum Turns on fan first, then if necessary
Performance lowers CPU processing speed.
Performance Uses a combination of fan and
lowering the CPU processing speed.
Battery optimized Lowers the CPU processing speed
first, then if necessary turns on the
fan.
Windows 2000, open the Control Panel and double-click
the TOSHIBA Power Saver icon. In Windows XP, open the
Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance and
click the TOSHIBA Power Saver icon.
This program lets you customize your hardware settings
according to the way you work with your computer and the
peripherals you use. To start the utility in Windows 2000,
open the Control Panel and double-click the TOSHIBA
HW Setup icon. In Windows XP, open the Control Panel,
click Printers and Other Hardware and click the TOSHIBA
HW Setup icon.
This Windows program lets you define your own "short-
cut" keys to quickly launch applications and speed your
work in Windows. To start the utility, click the Windows
Start button, point to Programs (Windows XP only, point
to All Programs), point to TOSHIBA Utilities and click Fn-
esse.
This utility for Windows lets you register a Supervisor
Password, which restricts access to HW Setup.