Notebook users might have faced many situations where they have felt the need for more battery. Or some people might have been suing their batteries for not performing as much as they expected. But its not always batteries fault. Many people don’t know that how batteries give its performance is totally depended on the users computing habits.

For Example, If you think that you can have 3 hours of battery backup from 6-cell battery playing Fifa on your system, then you should change your thinking. Gaming with battery performance makes no sense. It requires whole computer running at its full performance or it may disrupt your gaming experience.

Following some simple steps will let you manage some extra time from your notebook’s battery. Here are some ways to fetch maximum juice out of your notebook’s battery:

1. Decrease the Screen Brightness: Dimming the screen brightness can be really helpful while you are hungry for more power.

2. Use low resolution: Low resolution means less graphics usage, thus saving a lot of power.

3. Do not use optical drives: Optical drives are the best battery juice drinkers. An optical drive such as a CD or DVD drive uses a laser to read data from the disks, which extracts maximum juice from your battery. So simply avoid using these drives and the main point “never think about writing to a disk in this condition”. It may drain your complete battery within few minutes.

4. Plug out USB sticks, pen drives or USB devices: USB devices such as pen drives use your laptops battery to power themselves. If these are kept plugged-in even when they are not in use, they will also act as slow lecher for your battery.

5. Avoid Multi-tasking: Multi-tasking means running two or more programs at once. Its good that your Operating System supports multi-tasking, but its not that good when your PC is at battery mode. Multi-tasking puts a lot of load on the Processor, thus consuming a lot of power.

6. Do not play 3D games or use 3D software: If you are gaming stud then forget about mobility. 3D games utilizes the maximum system sources. While the game is running it requires processor to work at full speed, continuously spinning of the Hard Drive & Optical Drive, thus squeezing up a lot of battery power.

7. Get lots of RAM: RAM or Random Access Memory rates have got cheaper in the past years. However the virtual memory helps the low-RAM models to work much better but it also uses the Hard Disk after every few minutes, leading to battery loss. Thus it is recommended to have more RAM than Virtual Memory for saving the battery power.

8. Setup your OS to get maximum juice from your Battery: Most of the OS are deigned with various power profiles such Power Saver, High Performance, Balanced, etc. And these profiles are smart enough to save some amount of your battery. So tune your power profile to a Power Saving mode.

9. Hibernation or Sleep Mode can save your day: If you are in place where PC is not needed for some minutes but you have quickly to resume your work when you get back, Sleep mode or Hibernation can save your time as well as power. Rather than restarting simply just put your PC to Sleep mode or in Hibernation.

10. Close the programs not in use by you: There are some programs which by default start up when the computer starts like messengers, anti-virus, updating programs, etc. These programs continuously uses a lot of computer sources draining up the battery. So its better to close them.

11. Defrag your Hard Disk regularly: Defragging the hard disk keeps it organized and also speeds it up. The better the hard disk performs, the less power it consumes.

12. Keep it Cool: The cooler is your PC, the better it will work. There are many air winds on notebooks, make sure that you don’t block them while keeping the notebook on your laps. Let air easily pass through them. Also make sure your computer’s fans are working properly.

13. Lower the Graphic Performance: New notebook models comes with an option to adjust the graphic card’s performance. Lower the performance, so the graphic card and processor will use minimum system sources.

14. Use your charged battery weekly: If you have a habit of always connecting the power cable, its good. But it is also necessary to use the juice from a charged battery to keep it healthy. So it is recommended that you should use the battery power once a week.

15. Avoid Bluetooth or Wi-fi connections: Most of the laptops today have a single switch for Bluetooth and Wi-fi. Thus when you switch on the Wi-fi or Bluetooth, the other thing automatically gets activated wasting up your power. Thus disabling the one which you don’t want to use can also help you saving the power.

16. Turn off the Aero Graphics (Vista Only): If you are using the Microsoft Windows Vista, you might be enjoying its Aero (Transparency) effect. It looks good but it don’t acts as a good practice while we are talking about Battery Saving. Turning it off can get you a little more time for your other tasks.

17. Avoid Installations & Restarting: Restarting the computer is not considered as a good habit when you are in need of more battery. Restarting waists the time and also the battery power, as the computer needs to shut down all the windows shell files and then start them again. Thus it is not considered a good practice.

18. Keep it clean: Do you remember when was the last time you took your battery out from its chamber from the notebook? Well check now that is there any dust in that place. Keeping the battery connecting points clean can also help you in achieving the above target.

19. Say NO to auto-save & spell-check: Imagine you are working on a document in MS Office. You love its auto-save & spell-check feature. But did you ever thought that these features forced the hard disk to spin again & again in every few minutes. This consumes power each time the Hard disk has to spin to auto-save the data. Also spell-check causes the processor to work continuously as you are typing. Thus turning off these two features can help you a lot.

20. Disconnect an extra USB mouse or disable the touch-pad: Many notebook users have an external USB mouse. It is recommended to use only one thing for controlling pointer, either the mouse or the touch-pad.

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