Toshiba Sleep Utility

Toshiba Sleep Utility addresses a small group of community users that own certain models of Toshiba laptops and are also on the lookout for the Toshiba proprietary application to enable the ‘Sleep and Charge’ technology on their notebooks.

For starters, this particular piece of software can help you use the USB connectors of specific Toshiba laptops to charge your USB-enabled devices when the notebook is not turned on. This includes the situations where it is in sleep or hibernation mode as well as shut down. In order to quickly and easily find out whether your computer possesses the capability to charge various devices through this technology, you can look for a ‘bolt’ next to the USB connector.

Moreover, your Toshiba laptop does not even have to be plugged into an electrical outlet for the ‘Sleep and Charge’ technology to work. Although your notebook may present the bolts next to your USB ports, the tech is disabled by default with every new shipped computer. You can rapidly enable it from the BIOS of your Toshiba PC. The Toshiba Sleep Utility pops up on the screen whenever a new device is connected to your powered USB ports.

The functions and available options within the Toshiba Sleep Utility graphical user interface are not numerous, though they cover everything they need to. You are given the possibility to enable the feature, select from the ‘Typical Mode’ and the ‘Alternate Mode’ as the ‘Power supply mode’ and even enable under ‘Battery Mode’. You can tinker with these settings in order to get your devices to charge as you computer is shut down or just put to sleep.

Even though ‘Sleep and Charge’ is not compatible with all the devices out there, the fact that you can charge your mobile phone, for example, even when you are not using your laptop is clearly a great addition to the list of features of any notebook manufacturer. While Toshiba is not the only company to come up with this tech, Toshiba Sleep Utility is a must if you ever want to take full advantage of it.