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

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

Although many people ignore it, the battery life is one of the most important parts of your laptop, unless you use your notebook for non-portable purposes. The average life of a notebook battery is between two and three hours. Unfortunately, most batteries don’t even stand for their minimum re-ference.

When I bought my laptop, they said that the battery will stand for three to four hours, but it actually stands for much less… What am I sup-posed to do?

The question now is how do you increase your laptop battery life?

The article will be giving you a few tips to help you extend your laptop battery life.

Optimize the Power Options

You might be expecting me to tell you to go and ins-tall one cool software or to go and buy one external gadget, but the reality is that your laptop already has enough to make it last even longer than it cur-rently is.

All you need to do is optimize your laptop battery and select the right options. For example, with my HP laptop there is the “Balanced Power Option” and the “Power Saver Option”.

The balanced mode is the main option while the power saver mode will disable some system compo-nents in order to ensure I get more from my laptop.

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 many programs do you use at the same time? How many of these programs are really necessary?

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Try to ensure you avoid using your laptop for mul-titasking while at the same time cutting down the average number of applications you use in a day and you’ll be surprised to see a significant increase in your battery life.

Upgrade Your Computer Memory

How a computer functions depends on several components of the computer. The most important component that influences the work of a computer however is its memory (RAM).

A great way to save your laptop battery life is by ensuring it is able to perform a lot of operations in a short period of time and the only way to do this is by upgrading its memory.

Upgrading your laptop memory will also make it easy for you to play high graphic games, use a lot of applications and do a lot of things without your laptop being affected.

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While testing their battery life, most companies are trying to avoid loading high performance on their CPU, HDD and graphics memory, while you are using a huge part of your resources. You could always think about saving some battery life. Here are some effective tips on how to increase your battery life while not charging:

Dim your screen- You can always turn down the brightness of your screen, de-pending on the light in your room.

Turn down the volume- The volume needs a lot of energy. Turn it down if you are not using an external device with independent battery/charger.

Turn off unused laptop features - For example Bluetooth, or Wireless if you are currently not connected to the internet.

Turn off unused applications and processes - End the background applications that are not in use at the moment. You can monitor the resource usage of all running processes through the “Task Manager” - Ctrl + Shift + Esc..

Also, if you are not connected to the internet, you can feel free to shut down or temporary disable your firewall/anti-virus software.

Schedule Windows updates - While trying to save a battery life, it is not the best time to update your windows. Run these updates when you are charging your battery.

Another big mistake that laptop users always as-sume is charging the laptop even when its battery 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.

What is the difference between sleep and hibernate?

While your laptop is “sleeping”, your display and hard drive are turn off. Currently running applica-tions are stored in your RAM, while in hibernation, the applications data is saved to your hard drive. So, use the hibernate mode instead of sleep, because in hibernate mode, your laptop is completely using no power. You may have noticed that in sleep mode your laptop can be woken accidentally, which is another advantage of the hibernate mode.

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