Thursday, August 18, 2011

10 tips to extend Laptop Battery Life

1. Lower LCD screen brightness

To increase battery life decrease the brightness to lowest level to maximize battery life.

2. Kill Unnecessary Tasks

Background tasks increases CPU load and uses more RAM as a result battery life decreases.

3.Remove USB devices

Remove all USB devices like mouse,USB flash drive etc to increase battery life.

4.Remove CD/DVD

CD/DVD drives have moving mechanical parts which drains battery really fast.
5.Mute laptop volume

Mute or Decrease volume of the laptop to increase battery life. 

6.Turn off Wi-Fi/Bluetooth

Wireless connections like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth takes huge amount of power.So turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to save battery power.  

7.Add more RAM 

When system runs out of physical memory then it uses virtual memory.Hard disk is used as virtual memory .So more hard disk access is require as a result battery life will decrease.


8.Do not multitask

Don’t run multiple applications at the same time when laptop is using battery power.

9. Don’t shutdown laptop

Don’t shut down your laptop, use hibernate option.Hibernate is more power efficient than turning off laptop.

10. Regularly Defragment Hard disk

Defragmentation helps to reduce hard disk access time.It help to increase laptop battery life.   

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