Installing Windows 95 Power Management Support

Hard disk spin-down

OSR2 allows a spin-down time to be set for the hard drive, both for mains and battery usage. Click on the Disk Drives tab of the Power applet under Control Panel to access these settings.

Screen update on resume

I unchecked the option in the Advanced settings of the Display Properties entitled Reset display on suspend/resume. This stops Win95 from refreshing the display when you come out of suspend mode, an operation which adds a second or two to the resume process.

Screen blanking

Remember you can still use the PS2 command under Windows 95 to control such features as the screen blanking timeout. Click here for more details on this function.

Shut down and power off

Yoshinori Sakamoto posted to the mailing list that you could get the Win95 shutdown operation to power off the PC110 if you issued the command

PS2 _@CMOS 0F9H=011H

Note that you will then have to check the option Use APM 1.0 compatibility mode in the Power section of Control Panel for the battery meter to work after this.
 

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