Friday, December 16, 2011

How to take care of your laptop battery ?

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Laptops often the tool of choice of many people in their daily activities, especially for those who more often work in mobile. The laptop battery is one of the important components that must be considered its use. Many laptop users claim battery durable drop and not the age when a new laptop with whole corn. How to treat the batteries to be more durable and can be used much longer? Consider some of these tips.

In Windows there is a feature called power options. Through this feature you can adjust the power consumption of the laptop. It's easy. Click the Start button, then open Control Panel and then double-click Power Options icon. Will pop up a dialog box with the name of the Power Option Properties. Then select the Power Schemes tab. On the drop down menu will have six choices of Home / Office Desk, Portable / Laptop, Presentation, Always On, Minimal Power Management and Max Battery.

Try clicking one of six choices. The setting of the turn of the monitor, hard disks, System standby or System hibernates time will vary, depending on the option you choose.

If you want the battery last longer, you should choose 'Max Battery'. This option will conserve battery power because it only requires a minimum processor speed such as for reading documents or check e-mail. Max Battery will affect the speed of the laptop in the sense that the laptop's performance will decline.

Do not let any device plugged into the laptop when not in use
Often letting laptop users there is a device plugged into the laptop - whether it's cable digital cameras, USB memory stick, PC Card - though such devices are not used anymore. Make sure the appliance is unplugged from the laptop when not in use because it will drain battery power.


Note the use and battery charging
Do not half-hearted charging the battery. Caslah up to full 100 percent. If the battery is running low, caslah battery back up to full but do not wait until the battery is completely empty. This will make the capacity of the battery works fine.

To note again, remove the battery from the laptop if you do not use a laptop in a long time. It would be better if the laptop is plugged directly into the adapter if you will work in a long time.

Reduce the brightness
Webuser dot co dot uk reported that the LCD will eat battery power. Therefore you are advised to reduce the brightness of the laptop to a minimum while remaining comfortable to the eye.

Use screen savers 'Blank'
Screen savers were able to drain the battery. Therefore, use a screen saver 'Blank'. The trick, right click on Desktop and select Properties. It would appear the Display Properties dialog box, select the Screen Saver tab. On the drop down menu there are many options Screen savers, including 3D FlowerBox, 3D Flying Objects, 3D Text, Blank, Marquee and so on. You are advised to select the 'Blank' and set the time to wait (Wait time) up to 2 minutes and then click OK. This step will make batteries more efficient.

Reduce the resolution
Another way to make the battery last longer is to reduce the screen resolution and number of colors used in laptops. To reduce it, you can right click on the Windows Desktop and select Properties. In the Display Properties dialog box select the Settings tab. Then set the resolution by pulling its slider to the left to reduce the resolution. Then in the drop down menu select the color quality (color quality) is lower, and then click OK.

Turn off Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi is certainly participated actively consuming the battery consumption. If it does not intend to use wireless access or the Internet, make sure the Wi-Fi is turned off so the battery last longer


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