Top Tips To Increase Your Laptop’s Battery Life for Longer Use

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22/10/2011 04:51
Top Tips To Increase Your Laptop's Battery
Life for Longer Use
Top Tips To Increase Your Laptop's Battery
Optimize the Power Options
Life for Longer Use
You might be expecting me to tell you to go and ins-
Although many people ignore it, the battery life
tall one cool software or to go and buy one external
is one of the most important parts of your laptop,
gadget, but the reality is that your laptop already
unless you use your notebook for non-portable
has enough to make it last even longer than it cur-
purposes. The average life of a notebook battery is
rently is.
between two and three hours. Unfortunately, most
batteries don't even stand for their minimum re-
All you need to do is optimize your laptop battery
ference.
and select the right options. For example, with my
HP laptop there is the "Balanced Power Option" and
When I bought my laptop, they said that the
the "Power Saver Option".
battery will stand for three to four hours, but it
actually stands for much less... What am I sup-
The balanced mode is the main option while the
posed to do?
power saver mode will disable some system compo-
nents in order to ensure I get more from my laptop.
The question now is how do you increase
your laptop battery life?
This options vary depending on your laptop, and
you can easily do it manually by disabling some
components like your CD, by not making use of any
external device and by dimming your computer
brightness - this alone will help you increase your
laptop battery by at least 10% and it will also ensure
it last longer than the average laptop battery.
Don't run a lot of Applications at the Same
Time
The next step you should take is to ensure that you're
careful with how many applications you install and
run on your computer at the same time.
If I were to ask, how many laptop applications do
you run on your computer at the same time? How
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many programs do you use at the same time? How
The article will be giving you a few tips to help you
many of these programs are really necessary?
extend your laptop battery life.
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Top Tips To Increase Your Laptop's Battery Life for Longer Use
Try to ensure you avoid using your laptop for mul-
Turn down the volume- The volume needs a lot of
titasking while at the same time cutting down the
energy. Turn it down if you are not using an external
average number of applications you use in a day
device with independent battery/charger.
and you'll be surprised to see a significant increase
in your battery life.
Turn off unused laptop features - For example
Bluetooth, or Wireless if you are currently not
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connected to the internet.
How a computer functions depends on several
Turn off unused applications and processes - End
components of the computer. The most important
the background applications that are not in use at
component that influences the work of a computer
the moment. You can monitor the resource usage of
however is its memory (RAM).
all running processes through the "Task Manager"
- Ctrl + Shift + Esc..
A great way to save your laptop battery life is by
ensuring it is able to perform a lot of operations in
Also, if you are not connected to the internet, you
a short period of time and the only way to do this
can feel free to shut down or temporary disable
is by upgrading its memory.
your firewall/anti-virus software.
Upgrading your laptop memory will also make it
Schedule Windows updates - While trying to save
easy for you to play high graphic games, use a lot
a battery life, it is not the best time to update your
of applications and do a lot of things without your
windows. Run these updates when you are charging
laptop being affected.
your battery.

Another big mistake that laptop users always as-
sume is charging the laptop even when its battery
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is full. Remember: It is recommended to unplug
your charger when your battery is full. By this way

the battery will get more "training" on its consum-
mation.
While testing their battery life, most companies are
trying to avoid loading high performance on their
What is the difference between sleep and
CPU, HDD and graphics memory, while you are using
hibernate?
a huge part of your resources. You could always
think about saving some battery life. Here are some
While your laptop is "sleeping", your display and
effective tips on how to increase your battery life
hard drive are turn off. Currently running applica-
while not charging:
tions are stored in your RAM, while in hibernation,
the applications data is saved to your hard drive. So,
Dim your screen- You can
use the hibernate mode instead of sleep, because
always turn down the
in hibernate mode, your laptop is completely using
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brightness of your screen, de-
no power. You may have noticed that in sleep mode
pending on the light in your
your laptop can be woken accidentally, which is
room.
another advantage of the hibernate mode.
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