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Mobile Computing
Monitoring battery power
Power profiles in Windows XP
In Windows
profile or select your own combination of power management
options. The following steps describe this procedure.
NOTE
1
Open the Start menu, click Control Panel, then
Performance and Maintenance.
2
Click on the Toshiba Power Saver icon.
3
Select an appropriate profile for your work environment,
or create your own custom profile.
4
For more information, see
Using a hot key to set the power profile
You may use a hot key to set the power profile.
To set the power profile:
1
Press
pop-up window.
Sample Power Profile mode pop-up window
®
XP, you can choose from predefined power
If you try to use the power management feature in Windows, a
message tells you to close the Microsoft power options and
use the Toshiba Power Saver instead.
and
simultaneously to display the power profile
Fn
F2
"Power Saver" on page
230.