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Top eight tips for prolonging your laptop battery life

By Daisy on Apr 27, 2010 |Computers

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Although there is no way to immediately make a revolutionary change on laptop battery, we can improve it by changing the habits of using notebook PC, so that to prolong laptop battery life. The following are some practical ways for the laptop users to extend battery life. Are you still confused that the standby time is getting short in a period of time? Do you have ways to prolong your laptop battery life?

Tip1. Defragment regularly

Defragmentation can allow the hard disk to work faster and defragment regularly can keep the hard disk in a high efficiency. Of course, it is better to defragment when linking to the power adapter. With the high efficiency of the hard disk, it will certainly reduce the power consumption and then extend laptop battery life.

Tip2. Close background programs

Some programs are run in the background. Although we can not directly see these programs running, they are still consuming the CPU processing power and the battery power. The best way is to turn off all unnecessary background processes in order to prolong battery life.

Tip3.Keep the hard contact clean
We propose here that clean the battery's hard contacts with cloth dipped with alcohol every few months. This ensures that the battery electric quantity can be more effectively transmitted to the various components.

Tip4. Reduce the screen brightness

Most of the computer screen brightness can be adjusted. Some may even reduce the CPU's operating frequency. When only using the battery to work, reduce these parameters can be more effective to extend battery life.

Tip5. Hibernation rather than standby

Although the standby allows the user immediately to return to work status, this function is not better than hibernation to save power. Hibernation is also able to save your current job status and what is important that it is almost able to stop consuming electricity.

Tip6. Optimize power options

In Windows control panel, there is a power button. You can set and optimize your notebook PC through this button. However, if some PC has attached with efficient power management software, it would be more convenient for users.

Tip7. Take good care of your battery

Take good care of your battery is not to leave it alone, but to use it regularly.
Do not keep the fullbattery for a long time. Once it is charged, you should use it thoroughly at least every two to three weeks. Of course, do not let your lithium battery consumed completely which is an approach to deal with the old battery memory effect.

Tip8. Reduce the application of display card

We can change the resolution of the display card and close some programs in order to have beautiful effects. We must par attention to the display card as it almost has the same power consumption as the hard disk. Sometimes, it may even consume more power than the hard disk does.

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