Top 15 ways to extend your laptop's battery life

Filed in archive Hardware by Elwyn Jenkins on July 23, 2007

Laptops are a great tool to enable officing from anywhere, that is, until your laptop battery becomes a pain needing more drinks of juice than there are outlets on your journey.

With a little bit of good management, however, you can extend the battery life of your laptop, so that you can enjoy the mobility of your laptop for a greater length of time.

"Top 15 Ways to Extend Your Laptop's Battery Life" is a comprehensive article on this matter, giving you more hints and tips about improving the life of your laptop's battery than any other single reference.

There are also two bonus tips added to the 15 ways to extend the battery life of your laptop; the first of these bonus tips is quite simple - turn off autosave in MS-Word. Autosave works your hard drive harder than most any single program and by turning this off you also save on expended energy from your laptop's battery.

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The more you are doing at the same time with your PC, the more memory and CPU usage increases. Both of which directly use up battery. Close any applications you aren’t using, even the small ones.

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There are several steps you can take to help you get maximum performance from your laptop battery: Prevent Memory Effect - Keep the laptop battery healthy by fully charging and then fully discharging it at least once every two to three weeks.

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it really irritating when in between typing on a important mail suddenly the laptops starts beeping indicating low battery and unfortunately u dont have a power cord

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