tips & tricks

Laptop Battery

Jan 27, 2009

Today I’m going to tell you some recommended tips to improve your laptop battery life. Knowing these tips would be really helpful and practical for all laptop owners specially who need to work with their laptops using battery power frequency.

Improve your laptop battery life

  • Sometimes you need to work on your notebook using battery power. Using the tips below helps you to optimize your laptop battery usage and extend your battery life:
     
  • CPU activities need amount of battery power. So, you can use some programs that control the CPU speed to optimize the battery life. For example SpeedSwitchXP is simple and straight-forward to use, and you can Control the speed of your CPU to give you either Max Battery.

  • Defragging your Hard drive can also help your laptop battery to work longer and better.
     
  • Decrease the LCD brightness to increase laptop battery power usage.
     
  • Kill unwanted program which are not necessary to run at the moment. if your antivirus is running stop it and try scanning later, stop Google Desktop and so forth.
     
  • If you never use your laptop on battery power use is minimum once every 2 or 3 weeks. Otherwise your battery will be ill too soon! But do not use your battery power fully (just use it for a short time)
     
  • Remove external hardware. USB mouse, cool disks and etc. These ones use your battery.
     
  • Increase your memory (by adding RAM) and decrease virtual memory. Because more laptop memory causes your laptop battery works less.
     
  • Prefer Hard disk usage and use CD\DVD ROM(S) less. So, if you need to use a DVD\CD when you are using battery power, make a back up and then run your program from your Hard disk.
     
  • Clean your battery pin(s).
     
  • Hibernate your notebook and don’t standby. (Hibernate mode needs less battery power)
     
  • Decrease your laptop temperature. (follow this post to find a tip about this topic)
     
  • Decrease Graphic card activity (disable Screen resolution and disable screen savers).
     
  • Turn off auto save on the software(s) you are using at the moment. and just set your laptop to
     
  • Hibernate after finishing battery power to do not lose your data
     
  • Set your windows power option to use battery power less (check it to don’t be max battery)
     
  • If you do not need to Wifi or Bluetooth, turn them off!

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