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Better, lighter and faster laptops are coming into the market everyday, not everyday but still =p. Although batteries are progressing but still they still give laptop users a pain in the neck. There are many laptops and notebooks which comes equipped with helping users to increase the battery life but the very latest windows like Vista has no such kind of better battery management so it is up to the user now how he manages his battery life.

Here are some tips on how to increase your laptop battery life.

Defragmenting your hard disk on regular basis really helps you a lot, now your processor wont use up more battery searching the whole hard disk for a file when it will be available at more reachable place. I know that defragmenting a hard disk takes a lot of time; you can either put your laptop to direct power or decrease the brightness of the screen. Also many laptops comes with a screen black out feature, so that can also be handy in defrag your hard disk.

Open your task manager (by ctrl + alt + del) and you would find many unnecessary programs running in background. All those useless background and foreground (useless programs running on taskbar) use up most of your battery, try closing all of them so the battery consumption would be limited.

USB devices are also the culprits of using battery, so always remember to disconnect all your USB devices when not used or just turning them off from the taskbar would work too. Adding more RAM to your laptop would be better as it does not need any huge power input and it would decrease the number of accesses to the hard drive.

Another good idea is to use virtual drives instead of the real drives as optical drives consumes less power than the hard drives.

I have observed some people using whole of the battery and complete drying up the battery, never, do not do it! It affects the capacity of the battery when your re charge it again. And also remember that do not leave the charged battery unused; if you charge it, do use it slowly. Also use the hibernating function, as it saves the state of your system and later shut it down, instead of the stand by mode, which only lowers the power consumption.

Also remember to use your laptop at a cooler place and do clean your air vents and coolers often cause some times dust block the air outlets.

Try using the “Power Options” like available in windows to optimize your power usage.

Hope it helps your laptoping needs =)

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