Sunday, October 24, 2010

How To Save Laptops Battery Power

Laptops tend to lose their fascination quickly when you need frequently to look for the nearest power plug to charge up. We all want our laptop battery to last as much as possible. How do you keep your battery energy as long as possible? The answer at this question is what the laptop users are looking for the most. For start we'll try to expose you some elementary things that you should know about the laptop battery: 1). there are different types of batteries: universal, rechargeable, external; 2). there are different chemical substances used in batteries: Lithium Ion, NiCad, Ni Mh.

How do you keep your energy much time as possible? Here are some tips&tricks that might help you:
- Use the original charger;
- You must make your hard drive as efficient as possible. For that you need to defrag your hard constantly. But be careful, don't do that while your battery is on;
- Charge the battery after is automatically powers off, the full charge the battery;
- It is important in saving some extra Asus Laptop Battery power such as Asus A42-A3 Battery to dim as much as you can your laptop screen;
- When you don't use the USB devices, even your mouse, remove them. It will help you to save your battery power also;
- If you want your battery to last more, you must clean your battery's metal contacts, monthly. You can use for that a moistened alcohol duster. If you do that the power from your battery such as dell Inspiron 6000 battery will be transferred efficiently;
- If you use your laptop as a desktop PC, remove the battery. At least, don't let it in for long time. Remove the battery, not before you make sure that it is charged half from its capacity and store it in a safe place (normal room temperature). But pay attention, you must reinstall your every month and use your laptop till full discharge. Why you need to do that? Because if you let your battery in the laptop while you are using an electrical plug for a long period of time, this will keep the battery in permanently charging state and that diminish the life of the battery;
- Rather use hibernate mode than the standby mode, even if in standby mode you save some of your battery power and also you can continue the work on your laptop from where you left it. But the most useful way for you to save your battery power is the hibernating mode. The advantage of this mode is that your laptop is shut down and the your laptop state is saved;
- Another way to save your battery power is using a lower graphics. If you want to do that, you have to change the screen resolution.

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