How to extend the battery life of your laptop

There are some tips that will allow without too much cost and effort to increase the operating time of the laptop battery. These tips are obvious, but put together make it possible to achieve very respectable results in improved battery life.

1. Regularly defragment the hard drive - the less fragmented it is, the less energy is required to move the mechanical heads read and write information.

2. Turn off the screen - using the automatic screen sleep mode after the minimum time backlight LCD screen "eat" the lion's share of battery power.

3. Turn off programs running in the background - drive indexing software, antivirus software, etc..

4. Disconnect external devices - bluetooth, wi-fi, as well as USB devices that are powered by the battery of your PC.

5. Add RAM - less than your PC "swap", spends less battery.

6. Use reading from the hard drive instead of a CD or DVD, where available.

7. Make sure the battery terminals are clean.

8. Discharge and recharge the battery - train her. Do not discharge her to exhaustion.

9. Use Hibernate mode instead of Standby, as in the first case, the computer really is disconnected.

10. Keep an eye to the air ducts are clean so that the computer does not overheat.

11. Choose the settings of your OS priority "Conservation Power" mode.

12. Avoid multitasking in their work. Use only what you need at the moment.

13. Using a PC to use the Web or typing texts you will work independently much longer than when watching a DVD or playing.

14. Use the latest notebook models, if you can afford it.

15. Older laptops are on board with the battery "memory effect", which will eventually lose their capacity. Refresh such batteries, but rather the entire laptop.