Tips to Boost your Laptop Battery Life

 1, Disable Your Wireless Internet & Bluetooth

If you’re not using the internet or Bluetooth, consider disabling the hardware to save battery power. To disable your wireless, bluetooth, or both cards, either:
A. Locate the switch on the side of your laptop (many now have this) and turn your wirelesss cards off.
or
B. Click the network icon in the system tray and click Open Network and Sharing Center.

In the left-hand menu, click Change adapter settings.

Right click your wireless connection and click Disable.


2. Don't play computer games, music or DVD movies - Multimedia activities drain laptop batteries.

3. Disconnect all external device like PC Card modems, Firewire, USB devices and optical drives. Use the notebook touchpad instead of an external mouse.

4. Adjust your screen brightness - Dimming your display saves battery power.
    To turn down screen brightness, click the battery icon in the system tray and search for where to adjust the screen brightness.


5. Tweak Windows Power Options - Choose a Laptop power scheme that turns off the notebook monitor and hard disk after 10 minutes of inactivity.

Select Power saver and click Change plan settings.

Lower the time it takes for your computer to dim the display, turn off the display, and sleep when on battery.


6. Decrease or mute the Laptop Speaker Volume.

7. Turn off all scheduled tasks.

8. Turn off Auto-save features in Microsoft Office and other applications.

9. If your PC has a built-in wireless card, turn it off or disable it when not in use.
10. Use Hibernate not Sleep/Standby

If you want good battery life that spans multiple sessions, consider hibernating your PC instead of putting it to sleep/on stand by mode. Hibernation mode stores all volatile memory on disk and requires less power than leaving volatile memory in RAM for quick access when you turn your PC on. You can easily use a whole battery in two weeks or less of sleep mode, so you could be losing around 10% of battery life each day your laptop is sleeping instead of hibernating.

13. Add more RAM

I just added 2 GB of RAM to a netbook and I noticed the battery life is quite a lot better. This is because when you run out of memory, application data is written to the hard disk (virtual memory). By adding RAM to a computer that is always swapping/thrashing, you’ll save a noticeable about of battery life.

14. Avoid Using Too Many Applications Simultaneously

The first step you should take to ensure your laptop battery lasts longer is to avoid using too many applications simultaneously. By this, I mean, don’t multitask your laptop. If you want to use the internet make sure you use the internet only, and if you want to play games make sure you play games only. Don’t run 10-20 different applications on your laptop at the same time as they can use a large percentage of your system resources, and as a result affect your laptop battery life thereby leading to it not working effectively.