Fujitsu 270Dx User Manual page 52

S e c t i o n T w o
The PowerPanel icon looks like an atom with
its cloud of electrons. This icon will o pen the
PowerPanel menu. You can view the menu in
icon format along the edge of your desktop by
moving the cursor against the edge where you
have chosen to keep your PowerPanel toolbar
and letting it sit there until the toolbar appears.
(The default position for the toolbar is the left
side of the screen, but you can move it to
whichever edge you like by dragging.)
The power management toolbar has ten power
profile choices and six activation choices.
When you switch to AC powered operation the
PowerPanel toolbar will automatically change to
indicate AC power operation and will show the
AC Power profile as active.
The profiles are groups of system settings
designed to fit power operation to specific user
operating conditions. The activations are short-
cut ways to turn on specific power management
features of your notebook. Some of the profiles
can be edited and saved from the PowerPanel
application, some can be edited and saved from
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the BIOS setup utility and only viewed from
PowerPanel,and some are factory set and can
only be viewed from either PowerPanel or the
BIOS setup utility.
The profile choices are:
(This group is factory set.)
Maximum Battery Life.
Maximum Performance.
Power Management Off.
(This one is set only from the
BIOS setup utility.)
Custom Settings.
(This group is set from PowerPanel.)
Presentation.
Green PC.
AC Profile.
Word Processing.
Communication.
Games.
The activation choices are:
System Suspend.
System Save-to-Disk.
System Standby.
Hard Disk Standby.
Modem Power Toggle.
Video Standby.
The factory set Maximum Power Savings profile
is designed around trade offs of performance
and battery life. For truly maximum battery life
keep the display and volume levels as low as
possible and use the custom settings recom-
mended in Section Three on page 100.
P O I N T
The AC Power profile is activated auto-
matically when a power adapter is being
used, unless it is overridden by another
selection made after the adapter became
active. It can be reactivated by selecting
it or it can be activated by selection, even
when operating only on battery power.