My friends have been complaining about poor laptop battery performance and i am sure it gets really annoying when you need your laptop for urgent projects and the battery crashes.
I found this really lite application called BatteryCare which monitors your battery performance and optimizes it to maximum level so your battery performance is excellent.
Features:
- This software monitors the discharge cycles on your laptop battery and when ever a complete charge is required a balloon would pop up to let you know.
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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 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.
De fragmenting 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.
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