Win8 Encyclopedia 62: Configure the power supply to make standby more durable

Author: Mayon

How to make the computer after a power failure to maintain longer periods of time, or how to maximize the power of the computer connected to the power supply in the state, which in fact should relate to the system Power settings. In this issue of "Win8 Encyclopedia" we will take a look at how to manually configure the appropriate power plan.

First of all, we need to open the "Power Options" window, there are multiple ways. One can change the view mode to "Large icon" in the control panel, so that you can find the power option; the other is to right-click on the desktop to select Personalization, and then click <; Screen Saver> in this window You can also see the entry for <;Change power settings”.

Enter the power option window

Open the “Power Options” window and we can start to configure our power plan. The most basic one is to provide “balance” in the system by default. ;, “High Performance" and "Energy Saving" Here you can choose according to your own needs. In general, you can use balance, but if you want your notebook to extend battery life, use “Energy Saving”.

The most basic plan choice

Of course, we can also create our own power plan, click on the “Create Power Plan” on the left side to enter the custom window, first select “ Balanced & rdquo;, "High Performance", &"Energy Saving" is one of the general directions to give a plan name, in the next step, "close the monitor" and "go to sleep" & rdquo; Time to adjust.

Creating a Power Plan

In fact, we can also set up a more complicated power plan, click on the left side of “ select the time to turn off the display & rdquo; or & ldquo; change the computer sleep time & rdquo; Go to the Edit Plan Settings window and find “Change Advanced Power Settings”. Here we will see that more projects can be adjusted, including hard drives, processors, wireless adapters, USB settings, multimedia, etc., and each sub-category contains more sub-categories.

Advanced Power Settings

However, this depth of customization is not commonly used. Unless there are special requirements, simple customization can meet our needs.

The above is the entire content of this issue of "Win8 Encyclopedia". In this issue, we mainly introduce how to configure a more suitable power plan, so that the notebook can be used for a longer period of time in the battery state. At the same time, the performance is improved by configuration in the charging state. I hope this article will help everyone in the use of Win8.