User's Manual

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Wireless adapter energy-saving settings (only in Windows Vista and 7): This option determines the
extent of energy saving for the wireless adapter when the Economy Mode is on.
Connection to external devices
Synchronization with mobile devices: This setting will prevent synchronization of addresses, e-mails,
music files, etc. with your cell phone or portable media player and the related program will not start
automatically when the device is connected while Economy Mode is on.
Support for digital cameras and scanners: This setting means that you cannot import images from your
digital camera or scan images when Economy Mode is on.
Services
The operating system performs many more tasks than most users are aware of. Many programs and services
run permanently in the background, although they are not strictly necessary and use energy needlessly. If you
never use some of these functions you can disable them and permanently reduce your computer's energy
consumption.
Background functions
Network sharing of media library: This setting ensures that other network devices cannot access your
images, videos or music in the media library when Economy Mode is on. However, Economy Mode
does not affect the share of folders in the network.
Quick search using index creation: This setting ensures that Windows does not create an index of your
files and e-mails when Economy Mode is on. Turning off this setting slows down any searches
significantly.
Error Reporting: This setting ensures that no data will be gathered regarding errors and there will be no
communication with Microsoft about crashed programs or other errors when Economy Mode is on.
Support for virtual machines: (This setting is only available if your computer has software for virtual
machines installed on it.) This setting turns off background functions for the use of virtual machines
when Economy Mode is on.
Various services
Rarely used services: This setting turns off services that are only needed in specific circumstances (e.g.
company networks) or situations (e.g. installation of new programs) when Economy Mode is on.
Special encryption services: When Economy Mode is on, this setting turns off services for logging onto
a domain.
Network communication services: When Economy Mode is on, this setting turns off network
communication services that are rarely used, e.g. fax or peer-to-peer services.
Display
Visual effects provide a graphical display of Windows but take up valuable space in the memory. Particularly
with a low performance graphics card you can increase the computer's performance by turning off visual
effects.