Toshiba SATELLITE M500 - Manual (Page 127)

127 Mobile Computing
Monitoring main battery power
To edit a plan or to edit advanced settings, continue to the following
steps.
4 Click Change Plan Settings to choose the plan you want to
edit.
This screen allows you to change basic settings.
5 Click Change Advanced Settings to access settings for
battery notification levels, internal storage drive power save
time, etc.
You can click on the plus signs to expand each item and to see
what settings are available for each item.
6 Click Save Changes to save the plan changes you have
performed.
By default the three power plans Balanced, eco, and High
Performance are satisfactory for most people and do not need to be
edited. The eco plan is the best used for maximum battery time. The
High Performance plan will give you the shortest battery time, but
the highest performance from your computer. The Balanced plan is
a compromise between battery time and performance.
Using a hot key to set the Power Plan
You may use a hot key to set the Power Plan.
To set the Power Plan:
1 Press Fn and F2 simultaneously to display the Power Plan hot
key card.
(Sample Image) Power Plan hot key card
NOTE