Tuesday, February 12, 2013

MCTS 70-680: Power Options

MCTS 70-680: Power Options Video Clips. Duration : 14.02 Mins.


This video looks at power configuration in Windows 7. This includes how sleep, hibernation, and hybrid sleep work as well as the power plans included with Windows. Power plans allow you to group a number of power settings together and quickly and easily change between the power plans as required. Different power plans can also be configured for laptops when they are running off the battery and when they are plugged into the power. Power configuration demo 04:40 Sleep Mode When a computer is put into sleep mode, non essential devices like the hard disk and monitor are switched off. Power is still supplied to the RAM so the computer will continue from where it left off when the computer is woken up from sleep mode. The advantage of sleep mode is that the computer will not take long to spin up the hard disk and switch the other devices back on. The disadvantage with sleep mode is that power is still used. If you are running off of batteries, even in sleep mode the batteries will eventually run out and any unsaved data will be lost. To start any of the power modes, select the start menu. For the sleep mode, select the additional option sleep under the start menu. Some laptops may also have the power button configured to put the laptop to sleep when it is pressed. Hibernation Mode When a computer is put into hibernation mode the contents of the RAM are saved to the hard disk. Once complete the computer is switched off. When the computer starts up again the contents of the RAM ...

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