Click on the Power Option settings to select a power plan and change plan settings. As displayed on the Power Options configuration screens, there are three preferred plans Balanced, Power saver and High performance.
Scroll down to "Power buttons and lid". There exists three buttons to be configured: power button, sleep button and start menu power button. You can alter the "Start menu power button" setting from "Sleep" to "Shut down" or to "Hibernate".
Click OK to apply the altered changes. Note Occasionally, Windows sets the Power button to shut down, such as when there are updates to install that require the computer to restart. A mobile PC that's configured with the Classic Start menu reverts to the behavior seen in earlier versions of Windows. Desktop computers use a new power-saving mode called Fast S4.
In this mode, the system goes into standby, but RAM contents are written to disk, just as they are in hibernate S4 mode. Application developers need to be aware of changes in the shutdown process in Windows Vista. The net result is that when users want to turn off their computers, they're much more likely to get what they ask for. In Power Options in Control Panel, users can choose the power management behavior that they want.
Settings are collected into power plans, each of which has one of the following designated personalities:. Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. By Tim Fisher. Tim Fisher. Tim Fisher has more than 30 years' of professional technology experience. He's been writing about tech for more than two decades and serves as the VP and General Manager of Lifewire. Tweet Share Email.
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