How to Boost your laptop's Battery life

By Nimisha Singh

When you buy a laptop then company or dealer gives you bags of surety for good battery backup, but sadly all those promises do not work. So it’s up to you to save your Laptop’s battery life for longer use. Here I m giving some guidelines to save your Laptop’s battery life.

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These useful steps will save your Laptop's baterry life...

Steps

For the significant boost adjust power option of your laptop’s operating system. You can access this from control panel. Windows vista provides three option-balanced, power saver, and high performance, power saver gives the biggest boost for extending your Laptop’s battery life. Windows XP provides portable/Laptop power scheme which is similar to vista’s balanced option and power saver scheme.

Do not overheat your battery needlessly. Defragging your hard drive on a regular basis, it will run your process smoothly and save your battery life. Hibernate mode is the best option to save your Laptop’s battery life.

To save your Laptop’s battery life turning off unnecessary programs and keep graphics use minimum.

To save your battery life avoid more usage of external devices frequently such as USB drives and DVD drives as much as possible. These devices consume your battery life a lot. Wi-Fi is another cause for consuming battery life.