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Maximize Your Laptop Battery Life

Optimizing laptop battery usage is important to increase battery life and performance. Some tips to optimize battery include buying laptops with low-power processors, dimming screen brightness, running applications efficiently by closing unused ones, keeping appropriate RAM, cleaning battery contacts, removing unnecessary accessories, enabling power management features, disabling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when not in use, regularly defragmenting the hard drive, using direct power when possible, connecting to a UPS supply, and using the battery only when mobile.

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Maximize Your Laptop Battery Life

Optimizing laptop battery usage is important to increase battery life and performance. Some tips to optimize battery include buying laptops with low-power processors, dimming screen brightness, running applications efficiently by closing unused ones, keeping appropriate RAM, cleaning battery contacts, removing unnecessary accessories, enabling power management features, disabling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when not in use, regularly defragmenting the hard drive, using direct power when possible, connecting to a UPS supply, and using the battery only when mobile.

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Laptop Battery Tips

Optimizing laptop battery usage is very important to increase the battery life and performance.

Following are the Top tips to optimize the laptop battery :

 Buy smart: Look for notebooks with low power consuming processors like the Intel’s
“CULV” “Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage” processors or AMD processors with “cool &
Quiet” feature.
 Dim screen brightness: Choose an environment with adequate lighting—less brightness
means you’ll drain less power from your [Link] the Function key (Fn) available in
most of the laptops to dim the brightness.
 Run your applications wisely: To get the most from your laptop, even when
multitasking on the go, run resource intensive applications just when actively using them.
Then make sure to close the applications you aren’t [Link] Video on the laptop
will consume the battery very [Link] to run video almost all time.
 Close unused applications: Programs will still use power while sitting [Link] some
unrequired background processes can  be closed using the task [Link] such
processes from starting at boot.
 Have the right RAM for your needs: With appropriate RAM, instructions run off
memory instead of disk. Less power is needed to refresh the RAM than to spin the hard
[Link] increasing the RAM in in the laptop with high resource usage works will highly
improve the battery life.
 Clean your battery: Rub the battery’s metal contacts with rubbing alcohol every two
months. Allow to dry before re-inserting.
 Remove extra accessories: Unplug items like PC cards, USB and FireWire devices that
are not being used.
 Use built-in power management devices: Enable this feature and set your system to
“Battery Optimized” mode or “Max Battery” mode. Put your computer to sleep earlier
and turn off the screen backlight [Link] > Control Panel > Power Options (in
Classic View).
 Disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth if not being used: Wireless LAN and Bluetooth access
uses power even when it is not in use. Transmitting and receiving data drains the battery.
 Defragment your hard drive regularly: The built-in defrag utility included with
Windows  will take your file fragments and put them closer together on your hard drive,
which will decrease hard drive access times and save battery life.
 Use Direct Power as much as possible : Keep your laptop connected to the direct power
supply using the laptop power adapter as much as possible.
 Connect laptop to UPS supply : If possible then connect your laptop to UPS
[Link] will save your laptop from power fluctuations and if there are frequent power
cuts then your laptop battery life-cycle will not be wasted.
 Use battery only when on move : Try to power laptop through battery only when you
are on move or if there is no power supply.

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