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Acer 3810T User Manual

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Principled Technologies, Inc.: Battery life performance ratings
of two Acer Aspire Timeline 13.3” notebook systems

The MobileMark Auto-configuration tool makes the following configuration changes at each of the three levels:

Level 1—Required

• Creates and activates a new power scheme that it names MobileMark 2007.

• Disables hibernate, standby, and display standby.

• Sets hard drive timeout and CPU power management.

• See the following POWER SCHEMES section for details on this scheme.

• Disables Screen Saver.

• Disables Windows Update.

• Disables Desktop Cleanup Wizard.

• Disables User Account Control (UAC).

• Disables

Sidebar.


Level 2—Recommended

• Completes Level 1 steps.

• Disables Windows Security Center warning messages.

• Disables Windows Firewall.

• Disables incoming Remote Desktop connections.

• Disables Windows Error Reporting to Microsoft.

• Prevents the Welcome Center from running at startup.


Level 3—Best scores

• Completes Level 1 and Level 2.

• Disables Windows Defender.

Power schemes

The MobileMark Auto-configuration tool creates a MobileMark 2007 power scheme which makes the following
power option changes:

a . Additional settings:

• Require a password on wakeup: No

b . Hard disk:

• Turn off hard disk after: 3 minutes

c . Wireless Adapter Settings:

• Power Saving Mode: Maximum Power Saving

d . Sleep:

• Sleep after: Never

e . USB settings

• USB selective suspend setting: Enabled

f . Power buttons and lid:

• Lid close action: Do nothing

• Power button action: Shut down

• Sleep button action: Sleep

• Start menu power button: Shut down

g . PCI Express:

• Link State Power Management: Maximum power savings

h . Processor power management:

• Minimum processor state: 5%

• Maximum processor state: 100%

i . Search and Indexing:

• Power Savings Mode: Power Saver

j . Display:

• Turn off display after: Never

• Adaptive display: Off (Extends the time that Windows waits to turn off the display)