As oxygen is important to
man, so also battery tolaptop. Laptop user
understand that the
performance of the whole
system depends a lot on the
battery power.
Today, modern graphics,
hungry applications and
intensive operating system are
cutting down the life of
laptop battery every day. To
make your laptop battery last,
you need to take a good care
of it. Below are some tips that
can help to improve the
performance of your laptop
battery and make it last
longer.
1. Keep your laptop clean.
Laptop needs daily cleaning
so as to avoid the blockage of
the air vents. A blocked air
vents tends to generate more
heat thus reducing the life
span of the battery.
2. Avoid leaving your laptop
inside closed car or direct
sunlight because undue heat
kills off a battery slowly.
3. Defrag your laptop hard
drive. The basic rule is that
the lower the CPU and hard
drive load, the longer the
laptop battery runs. Daily
defragmenting the hard drive
will lead to a lesser load
which will enable the laptop
to run faster.
4. Disable screensavers.
Screensavers use CPU when
PC is idle
5. Lower screen brightness.
LCD screen and hard drive
consumes battery power a lot.
By dimming the brightness of
the screen, some good
amount of battery power.
6. Unplug unused external
device. Some external devices
such as flash drives, speaker,
external mouse and keyboard
etc are the biggest external
source that drains out the
battery power. If you don’t
need them when running on
battery, I will advise you to
plug them out to increase
standby time.
7. Use hibernate option
instead of sleep mode because
the sleep mode option tends
to draw power from the
battery while hibernate option
saves the computer work as is
and then shuts down
automatically.
8. Close unused programs.
One needs to close unused
programs to extend laptop
battery life. Whenever an
application is running in
background, the CPU usage
increase and the more the
CPU runs, the more the
battery power that will be
exhausting. Always check the
taskbar to see running
programs that are of no use
to you. Note that you need to
avoid playing heavy games.
9. Add up more RAM if you’re
laptop RAM is low. If you
laptop RAM is low, your
laptop will use Hard Disk as
virtual memory and it will
reduce the battery power.
10. Always try to discharge
your laptop battery
completely once in a week so
that every cell of your battery
will work properly.
Bonus and Useful Tip
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report for your laptop,
Click on START
menu, type CMD,
then right click
cmd.exe and click
on Run as
Administrator.
On the command
line, type
powercfg -energy
to view a power
efficiency report.
Hope you find theses tips
useful?
Have you found your own way
to increase battery life of
your laptop? Share the “˜life
giving’ tips with us in the
comments.
