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The proper use of laptop can extend laptop battery life
Laptop battery life is indeed a headache issue to us, although we can not make any changes to Laptop battery, but we can improve the utility by changing the habits of notebook using, so that battery life is lengthened. These more than 10 tips below is the practical method prepared for notebook users to extend battery life.
1. Defrag regularly
Defragging your hard drive that allows to work faster, make the hard disk defrag on a regular basis to maintain effective state, of course, defrag when using an external power supply. The disk response speed become quicker and working time become shorter, it will certainly reduce the power consumption to extend laptop battery life.
2. To reduce the screen brightness
Most of the laptop screen brightness can be adjusted, there are some even can reduce the CPU’s operating frequency. When using the Dell Latitude D610 battery, reduce these parameters can be more effective to extend battery life.
3. Turn off background programs
There are some programs running in the background, although not directly see these programs running, but all consume CPU processing power, of course, consume battery power. The best way is to turn off all unnecessary background processes in order to prolong battery life.
4. Reduce the peripheral equipment
USB devices (including your mouse), Wi-Fi wireless connections are able to consume hp F4809A battery power, when the equipment is not in use, the best way is to pull down or masked. There is some equipment, such as the iPod will begin to charge when connecting with the computer, be careful not to do it when using the battery-powered laptop.
5. Adding more memory
More memory means that notebooks do not be so dependent on virtual memory. Virtual memory is built on the hard drive, obviously access memory power consumption is lower, so more read the memory rather than the hard drive, this can reduce power consumption. However, adding memory also can trigger the issue of energy consumption, so the computer often use virtual memory, the most the time to consider adding memory.
6. Do not use drive too much
Although the hard drive power consumption relatively larger, but in fact the energy consumption of drive is more in the eyes. Even when not in use, CD-ROM is still rotate, consume energy. If you can find a suitable virtual CD-ROM files, through a virtual drive to read, obviously much less power consumption.
7. To keep the interface clean
We proposed here, every few months to clean up laptop battery metal interface, you can wipe by a cloth soiled with alcohol. This can ensure that the toshiba PA3399U-1BAS battery inside the battery can be more effectively transmitted to the various components to consume.
8. Take good care of the battery
Take good care of the battery is not to shelved, but regular check it out. Do not let the battery fully charged do nothing for a long, long time. Once charged the battery power, you should at least fully used once every two or three weeks. Of course, do not let your battery completely consume the electricity, it is the way to deal with the old battery memory effect.
9. Hibernate instead of standby
Although the stand-by allows users to immediately return to work status, but this feature is clearly not better than Hibernate to save power. Hibernate also be able to save your current work status, and almost a complete cessation of electricity consumption for laptops.
10. Reduce the operating temperature
Notebook temperature lowered to a more efficient operation. For the notebook used relatively long time, the internal would be a considerable degree of dust accumulation, which can raise laptop internal working temperature. Regular cleaning the inside of notebook is also important for extending apple A1061 battery life.
11. Optimize the Power Options
In the Windows control panel, there is a power option button, through the button, you can set up and optimize your laptop’s power options. There are some notebooks come with more powerful management software, it would be more convenient for users to use.
12. Non-multi-tasking
When using the battery, it is best to run only one task, rather than dealing with reports, send and receive messages in the background, while playing music, and so on. multi-tasking can only give you a faster notebook TravelMate 290 battery consumption, but also power off when some work haven’t done.
13. Less to run large programs
To extend battery life, it is best to run a small amount of heavy task large program. Send and receive mail, handling of electronic documents, are clearly smaller power consumption than play the game and DVD discs.
14. Buy a new laptop
The nootbook accompany us for several years is certainly not willing to throw away, but the harsh fact is: they are already old, already can not keep up the efficiency. The latest notebook, upgrade a lot on energy consumption, if you want longer VGP-BPS2B battery life, it may be picking up new love and throwing old love.
15. To prevent memory effect
If your laptop has used for a long time, it must be pay attention to prevent “memory effect” generation. Every couple of weeks let your battery fully charge and discharge, of course, if you are using lithium-ion batteries, then there is no need to do this.
16. Turn off auto-save
Microsoft Word, Excel and other programs have auto-save feature, in most cases this is an intimate setting, but when using the IBM ThinkPad R32 battery, which undoubtedly added to the hard disk work. Turn off this feature requires you to remember from time to time to save the document, prevent the results of hard work go down the drain.
17. Reduce the graphics application
For example, we can change the graphics resolution, close some aesthetic effects, graphics card is a remarkable place, because of nowadays the graphics card consumption has been almost, and some even higher than the hard drive power consumption.
