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Running the Computer on Battery Power
To set the threshold levels for the Low Battery and Critical Battery
alarms, follow these steps:
1 Choose Alarms from the MaxTime options menu.
MaxTime displays the Alarms dialog box.
The Alarms dialog box
2 Switch to the desired page by clicking the tab for the alarm
you want to set.
3 To change the Percent Remaining Threshold, click the +
or - buttons.
4 Click OK to save your settings and return to the MaxTime
battery gauge window.
Starting Again Where You Left Off
If you want to turn your computer off for a while but don't want to
spend all the time it normally takes to start your computer up
again, Toshiba's Resume Mode and Windows 95's Suspend com-
mand are for you. These modes provide a sort of electronic book-
mark, storing the current state of the computer, including all your
open files and programs, in memory until you turn the computer
on again.
Suspending the computer uses power supplied by the backup bat-
tery to store this information. If the backup battery ever discharges
completely, your information is lost. What this means to you is
that, although suspending will store your open files, you should
still save all your work before you turn the computer off.
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