How to Save Laptop Battery / Notebook

If you often go to cafes, malls, airports or to other places and always carry a notebook / net book, you may often run into problems due to power your notebook's battery does not last long when ignited. To fix this, try using the following tips to conserve battery from your notebook or net book you have.




These tips will not be useful if the battery from your notebook may be old or drop the condition has only lasted for a few minutes when ignited. There is no other way than to replace old batteries with new notebook. For others, the condition is still normal notebook battery, can try this exciting tips.

To help maximize the performance of your notebook battery, it is important to first understand how the actual workings of the battery and where power is applied. By understanding this you will be able to determine what steps should be done in order to save battery life of laptop you have.
 

Where the electric current flowing from the battery?
Microsoft, through its Engineering Windows 7 blog has compiled his diagrams are very useful for you to learn anywhere electricity flows in your notebook. In the diagram it is clear that the LCD screen is the most devices consume a lot of energy from the notebook. From the diagram it is also you can help us to maximize the saving of the battery of the notebook / net book you're using.

 

The first thing you need to do for power efficiency is to determine by careful configuration of the battery saving, whenever your notebook's screen will turn off automatically when not in use (see the diagram once again, the LCD screen is the most wasteful power devices) and other arrangements.

 

Next, do the efficiency of other devices such as hard disk drive to determine how long it will stop after no data transfer, power savings for the Wi-Fi, processors, graphics cards and other devices. You also can determine when the fan of the notebook will turn on, whether to remain at the default (following the performance of operating system) or as you wish (in some conditions will slow the performance of the notebook), which would certainly save more battery from your notebook.

 In accordance with what we see in the diagram, the most important of all how to save the battery, is to do a power saving on the screen. You can make savings by controlling the light coming out of the notebook screen and reduce the brightness or contras to a certain extent where you can still see the screen notebooks. Although important, this is not recommended for those of you who have a vision that is less sharp because it can cause pain in your eyes. So although important, do not sacrifice your eyes just for a notebook battery.

Continue with the next step, turn off several devices at the time was not used but are still active. Devices that may not be as useful as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LAN cards and other devices that are not needed. Try to avoid the use of external devices are like an external hard drive, flash disk or other USB devices because some of the devices it is very draining performance from your notebook battery.

In addition to hardware, software sometimes also be the cause of your notebook can not last long when ignited. Moreover, if in your notebook a lot of applications running in the background (applications are still running but not visible on screen) the actual application is not required. For those who are used to tinkering with the system, you can easily to turn off these useless applications. But for the "blank" and not used to be puzzled how to turn off the application. This can be overcome by using a software aerofoil that can help you to overcome them. Aerofoil is one of the free software that can help you manage applications running on your notebook and can help you to save power in notebook.

One more step you need to do to save the battery, try to use Hibernate mode when your notebook is not in use. Hibernate mode does not completely turn off your notebook, but this is a good option if you do not use the notebook without having to shut down applications that you used earlier.

As an additional step, you need to perform maintenance on your notebook batteries because basically the longer the battery notebook then the resilience and quality of the battery power goes down. You can perform maintenance spare battery by your notebook to work at room temperature the heat and remove the battery from your notebook when unused for long periods of time.

How long a battery life of your notebook at this time?

source: fastncheap