How to Extend the Battery Life of Laptop

Buying a laptop is not a big deal now a day, but maintaining it is quite difficult especially in case of batteries. If your laptop has got short battery life, it could spoil your work along with your performance. It is obvious that a laptop with short battery life is of no use as it could bring your work to halt.

But not to worry as you can find number of ways to extend the battery life of your laptop irrespective of the brand of the laptop, whether you have Toshiba laptop, HP laptop, Compaq laptop, the following rules are applicable to all. Here are some important tips regarding extended battery life of the laptop.

1. First try to dim your laptop screen as in order to work you not need to set your screen to the brightest, you can work very easily on the dim screen. So in short you can extend your battery life by just decreasing the brightness level of the screen.
2. Next way is to remove external devices as these external devices can drain much of the power of the battery. Try to disconnect external devices when you are not using them. If you want to charge iPod then instead of using laptop USB port use wall charger where you can keep your iPod while charging.
3. One should know that virtual memory of computer or laptop drain much power so try to have additional RAM as it will allow its user to use its actual memory instead of virtual memory. RAM also requires extra energy but not as much as virtual memory does.
4. Do you know that if you defragment your hard disk quite often, your hard disk will work effectively and use less energy? Well it’s true, defragmentation is a process where you divide your hard disk into different sections. This process will help a lot in improving your computer battery life.
5. Try to clean metal contact of your battery once in a month using cleaner. This thing will make your battery work more effectively.
6. Another method of extending battery life is to hibernate the system instead of putting it on standby. If you are using hibernation, you can actually start again from the point where you have left off.
7. We all know that we can perform multitasking on laptop or computer system, but it’s of no use if you are running multiple programs on the laptop without any use. Running multiple programs can reduce battery power very quickly so try to avoid running many programs if you really want to extend your battery life.
8. Always before turning on your computer try to make sure that air vent are clear as cooler computer will take less power and thus help in extending battery life. Another effective way is to open control panel and click on the maximum battery option.

Most of us use laptops for work and entertainment too. Instead of doing important works, we love to watch movies on laptop as that can be seen on the DVD player too, In the same way playing games as we can play same game on Play Station too. Try to use laptop only for that purpose for which you bought it and not for unnecessary stuffs for which there are secondary options available at home.

Follow such simple steps and you can increase your laptop life as extended battery life may result in extended laptop life.

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