Tips to make your Laptop Battery last longer

In 1-2 years of use, most of the laptop batteries doesn’t lasts longer. In this post i’ll tell different ways in which you can enhance your laptop’s battery life.

Tips to make your Laptop Battery last longer

Tips to make your Laptop Battery last longer

• Turn off Wi-Fi - If you don’t need wifi then probably you should turn off your wifi connection. Most laptops comes with shortcut keys to instantly disable wifi.
• Remove battery – If you are able to get AC power all time then you should probably remove the battery out until you actually need to go somewhere with your laptop. As long as the laptopis plugged into an AC outlet, it doesn’t actually need the battery.
• Remove all connected devices – You should avoid use of external mouse and try to use touchpad of your laptop. If you are not using then you should remove usb devices, firewires,PC Card modems etc
• Dim your screen brightness- One of the most important factor is dimming your screen brightness. Dimming of screen brightness saves a lot of battery.
• Decrease Volume – Decrease the master volume of your laptop or even put it on mute mode if you can work with it.
• Stop unnecessary processes – You better go to your task manager and on processes tab check for those processes which are not important and remove/ stop them. like itunes, AcroRd32.exe which are basically for checking updates so you cut them off to save battery life.
• Hibernate or standby – Putting laptop on hibernate or standby mode saves a lot of energy. But hibernating laptop will save more energy, so you better go with hibernate option to save battery life.
• Avoid using CD/DVD – When you use CD/DVD, you actually waste more energy and to avoid that if programs/ data is more often used then you better copy it in your hard drive in first place.
• Battery charge level – Try to maintain charge level of your battery in between 15% to 95% .
• Don’t go with multitasking – If you are not on AC outlet, then you should avoid using multiple programs at once.
• Battery manager – You can use any freeware for tweaking your battery use. Just google and find some useful software to do that for you.
• Multimedia Restriction- Last but not least if you are not on AC outlet, then you should avoid playing multimedia(audio, video, any games).

Final words on how to save battery life…

This is not a complete list on how to save battery life, when i’ll get other tips i will add those in this same list.