Geeky Tips: Improve Your Notebook Battery Performance

In the era of global advancement and tech gadgets uplift, your notebook may come up with an above standard configuration. Having massive RAM, plenty of spaces on hard disks along with power packed Graphics Card, your  notebook virtually satisfies all your demands. What remains unnoticed  is your performance of battery, its back-up during any of the most important tasks you perform during a power failure.

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The average life of a notebook battery in present times spans for about two to three hours, four hours maximum. But this span is constantly destroyed by miss usage and careless handling of your notebook unknowingly. Here at Tech-Tips-Geek we bring you a general overview, rather some notable recommendations to improve the span of your laptop battery life.

Let us take a look into these effective steps.

Turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi:

It may happen your work on your machine does not require any internet purpose. Sometimes you may be busy composing your draft, or busy preparing your office presentations for the next day. This certainly needs no usage of web access, neither it needs connection to any other computer in your local network. Still, carelessly your Wi-Fi switch or your Bluetooth device may remain switched on.

Instantly disable the Wi-Fi or the bluetooth device. Nowadays most notebooks come up with a shortcut key for disabling all this.

Hard disk defragmentation:

Sounds strange! But yet it is. What defragmenting originally does? It just sequentially arranges all parts of a file together, so that less effort is spent in watching or searching a file. This surely adds a small amount of privilege to your battery life to make it last  longer.

Dim the LCD brightness of your display:

This serves as one of the most useful methods to extend the precious life of your battery. Mellow down the brightness level of your notebook to the lowest value possible. Configure it in the power options menu.Simultaneously remember to turn down the color depth(intensity) along with screen resolution. These options indirectly involve with the battery life. Mellowing all these down surely adds a remarkable improvement to increase your tablet performance.

Disable Autorun background processes:

You may have some autorun processes running on our machine.For example, you may be unaware of the fact that your
Antivirus is turned on as soon your machine boots.Or the pen drive contents open as soon it is plugged in your USB Port.This consumes your battery. Be sure enough to turn off all these spontaneous autorun process in your machine
temporarily. Turn these on only when you require it.

Using Standby or Hibernation mode:

A short time you are away from your notebook for a small work, don’t shut it down. Use the Standby mode. All your
currently running applications are stored in RAM.You come back from work, your applications are restored once again, you continue your operations.Coming out of your Standby Mode quickly adds a extra privilege to your performance life of notebook battery.

When you are away from your work for a longer amount  of time, use the Hibernate option. This mode shuts down your notebook but saves all you currently running applications in the hard disk. You open your machine, it is restored to the exact similar condition when you hibernated it.

Some small Geeky Tips:

1. Never expose your battery to extremes of temperatures, high heating or frezing mercury levels.

2. Remember to remove your battery from notebook when not using it for a month or longer periods of time.

3. If you are happen to use a Nickel-metal-hydride battery, remember to completely drain its charge and recharge it once a month to optimize its capacity and span.

4. Fully charge brand new battery packs before use.

5. Always plug in your laptop charger into a UPS and never directly to a incoming power port. This ensures safety and increases life span.

The above precautions and help tips if maintained, can increase your battery performance to a higher level. Be it power failure or traveling without an A.C. source, your battery is always on the run to provide you with optimum satisfaction levels.

Go Ahead!! Enjoy the milestone of your battery!!