Prevent Your Laptop's Battery Becoming Drained So Rapidly

by Graham Kelly
http://www.trilogicuk.co.uk

Lots of laptop users don't realise that's quiet simple to extend battery running time via a few simple tweeks. Some of the next hints will save more power than others however overall a substantial increase in battery life ought to be experienced.

Go to the Windows Power Setting Options present in Control Panel and alter the settings to the best power saving option. This can be a fast and simple way to save battery energy with the least amount of thought.

The brighter that the display is run the more battery power is used; so dim the display to the lowest that you find acceptable. This will save a lot of power.

Having lots of packages executing while the laptop is just idling is wasteful on power and can slow the execution of the essential applications and losing battery power. It might be best to isolate and stop most of these aside from important ones like a virus checker.

When turning off the laptop don't put it into standby as this still uses quiet a lot of battery power; instead use hibernate. This has the benefit of utilizing almost no battery power and allowing the laptop computer to quickly startup.

Adding further RAM will help by saving battery power. This may enable programs to run mostly from the RAM rather than from the hard drive. Moreover, virtually all applications will run faster and smoother.

Turn off any unnecessary hardware components. The WI-FI card uses battery power when turned on even if not connected to the network. It can normally be turned off by way of a switch or keyboard functions.

The hard drive makes use of more energy than RAM but makes use of considerably less than the CD or DVD drive. So attempt to install packages and data in order that they run from the hard drive rather than the CD or DVD drive. When installing a program it is usually possible to instruct it to install all of the code on the hard drive so access to the CD or DVD drive is not required.

Do not play music while working the laptop computer as the combination of the CD or DVD drive and sound from the audio system will soon drain the battery. If possible turn down or mute the sound to save lots of much more battery energy and lengthen the use of the laptop.

If you hear the fan working frequently or all the time then battery energy is being wasted trying to cool an overheating laptop. The vent could also be blocked or if you are utilizing it on your knees you may be stopping air flow. In both case additional battery power will be wasted and the laptop might eventually be damaged by the surplus heat.

Over a period of time your laptop battery will loose its efficiency, you will find that it requires charging more often. Like all rechargeable batteries, the more instances it is charged and discharged the less energy it will hold. There are a number of things that may be tried to lengthen the time before this happens. Attempt to charge then nearly fully discharge the battery by using the laptop until it has less than 25% charge present. Do not leave the battery charging longer than necessary. Do not let the battery get hot.

There are many other components that affects the power drain out of your laptop computer's battery, but the major causes of depletion have been considered. A battery will never be as good as the mains supply in operating your laptop computer but there's no other alternative if you are on the move.

Graham has had many years experience repairing faulty laptops, netbooks, notebooks and recover flash drives; specialising in repairing motherboards at component level for http://www.trilogicuk.co.uk. Laptop repair is always difficult however is very rewarding when an obscure fault is found and fixed.

Article submitted Sunday, September 11, 2011 & read 6 times.

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