TIPS TO EXTEND YOUR LAPTOP'S BATTERY LIFE

<u>Follow this safety tips</u>
1. Lower your screen brightness
Depending upon the working
environment , always change the
brightness of your laptop’s screen . If
you have a Laptops without LED
screen , reducing the backlight also
helps to save a lot of power .
2. Disable programs running in the background
Windows has many background
processes running without the users
knowledge . Even many programs
installed by the user are enabled to
run automatically on the startup .
disabling these programs from the
task manager will decrease the
system resource usage of your laptop
and help extend its battery life .
When possible always try to run one
program in an instance .
3. Remove external devices
External devices like USB flash drives or external CD drives consume a lot
of power from your battery .
disconnecting the devices when they
are not in use stops drainage of
power from your laptops battery and
extends its life .
4. Don’t use the CD drive
Optical disk drives consume a lot of power . these drives spin and waste power even when the drive is not in
use . Use Daemon tools lite , a free
application that converts your CD’s
and DVD’s into ISO images that can
be stored on your hard disk or
accessed via virtual drives. When you
some data stored on a optical disk,
make a image of the disk through
daemon tools lite and eject the disk,
minimising the use of the optical
drive helps to extend a laptop’s
battery life .
5. Defragment your Hard disk
A hard disk which is not
defragmented regularly tends to spin
more to access data . Defragmenting
a hard disk regularly ensures that
your hard disk has to spin less ,
which in turn extends your laptops
battery life .
6. Take care of your battery
Batteries require a lot of
maintenance . follow these simple
trick to extend the battery life . Do
not ever leave your battery on charge
for a long period of time or work on it
while its charging , this will affect the
battery’s life negatively . Batteries
leak charge if they are left idle so it
is advised to regularly use your
laptop once it is charged .
7. Use hibernate instead of standby
Whenever you pause from your work,
always put the laptop into hibernate
instead of standby . Standby mode
keeps on draining your laptops
battery . People mostly don’t know
the difference between these two
modes and end up to use standby
which helps to continue their work
instantly . Avoiding the standby
mode extends the laptops battery
life .
8. Lower graphic usage
Play graphic intensive games can
drain a lot of power within a short
period of time . try playing games on
the lowest setting to maximize your
laptop’s battery life .
9. Turn down the volume
Do not use play music through laptop
speakers frequently . Invest in a
headphone or a earphone . This helps
to extend its the battery life .
10. Disable WiFi and Bluetooth when not needed
WiFi and Bluetooth drain too much
power from a battery . To extend your
laptop’s battery life these features
must be always disable when not in
use .
11. Avoid extreme temperature
Batteries perform the best in a cool
environment and Extreme
temperatures have serious effects on
a battery’s life .Under load batteries
tend to dissipate more amount of
heat . To counter these , always try to
use a laptop under a fan .
Additionally you can use a portable
laptop cooling pad to dissipate the
heat released inside the laptop and
the battery . A portable laptop
cooling pad is a must have which
helps to a lot to extend yits battery
life .
Tthese are the basics to extend a
laptops battery life.
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