Tips To Extend Your Laptop Battery Life

Priorities shift when you’re not connected to an AC outlet. Suddenly, processor speed and the glitzy Glass interface just aren’t that important when your laptop battery is going to power off in few minutes. Read more on my earlier post on ways to improve battery life of your laptop : http://www.bench3.com/2009/06/ways-to-improve-battery-life-of-your.html

Here are few more tips on how to increase your laptop battery life :

1. Reduce Screen Brightness
2. Disable Desktop Background Slideshows
3. Turn off unnecessary radio signals. If you are using the laptop and you don’t need to be online, turn off your WiFi. If you are not syncing, turn off Bluetooth too.
4. Work on one application at a time
5. Disable background programs. See the lists of background programs that you can safely disable here
6. Disable Outlook’s auto send/receive. Read More
7. Defrag your harddisk
8. Remove disk media from drives
9. Hibernate dont sleep, since hibernate saves your laptop’s current state onto the hard disk and turns off the computer.
10. Take care of your laptop battery.

Other Posts: Windows 7 helps give portable computers longer battery life so that mobile users can be more productive and get more work done on a single battery charge. For example, integrated displays are the largest power consumer on typical portable computers. Adaptive Display Brightness automatically dims the display after a period of inactivity.  Read more: http://www.bench3.com/2010/08/longer-battery-life-for-computers.html