Your OmniBook has several features that save battery power when the ac adapter isn’t connected. The most obvious of these is automatic shutdown—when your OmniBook has been idle for 3 minutes with no ac power, it turns itself off automatically. (Other power-saving features are described throughout this manual.) To resume operation, just press the On/Off button. You Don’t Have to Exit OmniBook Applications A key benefit of your OmniBook is that you don’t have to exit applications if you’re still using them—even if you turn off your OmniBook. You can run several and quickly switch among them.
If, however, an application has trouble starting or seems slow, you may need to close some documents or even exit some applications to make more memory available. If this doesn’t fix the problem, close all applications and exit Program Manager (and Windows), then press CTRL , ALT , and DEL simultaneously to restart the OmniBook. To store the OmniBook • Press FN+F12 to activate Save-to-Disk. If you plan to store the OmniBook for longer than a week, it’s a good idea to save the state of your OmniBook to the hard disk when you turn it off. Then you will be able to resume working at the same point even if the batteries have been exhausted.
To turn the OmniBook on after a save-to-disk, just press the On/Off button. The OmniBook takes a few seconds to start up and then returns to the last screen you had displayed. Checking the LCD Status Panel The LCD Status Panel, located above the keyboard, contains indicators that show the current status of the OmniBook. Additional Status Information Additional Status Information The taskbar normally displays status indicators at its right end: • AC and battery information. • Sound status. • Infrared status. • PCMCIA card status.
Some of the taskbar indicators provide information or control when you move the mouse pointer onto the indicator—or when you click the indicator (or double-click, or right-click). 11