- Turn off Wi-Fi and bluetooth. Use shortcut key to instantly disable wireless networking.
- Don't play games on computer, music or DVD movies. Multimedia activities drain laptop batteries.
- Disconnect all external device like card modems, firewire, USB devices and optical drives. Use notebook touchpad instead of an external mouse.
- Adjust screen brightness, dimming your display saves battery power.
- Tweek windows Power option. Choose laptop power scheme that turns off the notebook monitor and hard disk after 10 minutes inactive.
- Decrease or mute laptop speaker volume
- turn off all scheduled task
- Turn off auto save features in Microsoft office and other applications
- Turn off or dissable built-in wireless card
- Program from CD or DVD can copied to hard drive and run from hard drive.
To make laptop battery can live longer, actually many factors affect the amount of time that a laptop battery can deliver can deliver power before it must be recharged.
- If you don't use laptop for extended periods of time, i.e. for a week or more, remove the battery pack from laptop.
- Don't put battery in high heat or freeze temperature. Don't put on your car in summer time. Hot battery can discharge very quickly, and cold ones can't create as much power.
- Make sure to plug a laptop charger adapter into a UPS and not directly into a power outlet or surge protector.
- If you have a nickel metal hydride battery, completely drain and recharge the battery once a month to maximize its capacity to hold a charge.
- Fully charge new battery packs before use. New pack needs to be fully charged and discharged (cycled) a few times before it can condition to full capacity.
- Leaving a battery in a laptop while using an electrical outlet for long periods of time will reduce the life cycle of the battery.
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