Increase Your Laptop's Battery Performance

Laptop manufacturing companies give simple idea about Laptop’s battery backup time over ideal conditions. If company provided the battery backup as 5 hours, it is found that it last only over 3-4 hours. A laptop battery loses its charge much faster than expected; this is caused due to extra consumption of power in Laptop’s processor which increases heat generation & causes increase in the speed of fan.
A Laptop performs a wide range of functions that on hardware basis as well as software. A Processor performs a large number background processes which also uses more CPU usage & increases battery usage.
I sorted out some important points that can increase your battery performance:

• If you are not using any wireless network, put network switch off as some times network adapter eats up to half of the battery.

• Check your startup programs and processes that need much battery power.

To check your startup programs go to run command, type ‘msconfig’ in run command and hit enter. A menu opens which has multi-tab window, go to ‘Startup’ tab, and uncheck unwanted programs and hit enter.
To check your running processes type ALT + CTRL + DLT, which opens a window, click on ‘Start Task Manager’, then open ‘Processes’ tab. This step is not relevant for beginner computer users because ‘Image name’ or processes name are not easily understandable. A simple solution is Advanced System Care which shows processes with their program names and simple interface for terminating processes.

• Avoid multimedia operations like music or video playing which needs high amount of battery usage as playing of video need graphic hardware requirement as well as speaker usage.

• Set your laptop at less brightness level to increase your battery backup time.

• High resolution games needs a very high amount of graphic acceleration as well memory usage that can shut off your battery in less than a hour (for a laptop that has battery backup of 3-4 hours).

• Do not run bunch of programs simultaneously,

                 more program = more memory usage
      which use more battery usage. Using a single program is more reliable than using multiple programs at the same time.

• Keep your DVD drive empty when not in use, in standby mode when a disc is in DVD drive moves at a less speed, but less speed rotation of DVD drive also needs battery usage.

• Shut off webcam device & its program, when it is not in use. Most of laptop have dedicated key for closing webcam device.

• Keep your laptop volume mute as Windows or any other operating system sounds for every operation performed on your laptop.

• When using battery power always use power saver mode, by default power saver is used with relevant settings that decrease battery usage.

I am sure about it that your Laptop battery efficiency will increases by taking above steps.