Let `s face it, most laptop manufactures don` t tell the whole truth about the life of their machines "of the battery. When your laptop manufacturer indicates that your machine will last up to 4-5 hours, not taken seriously. Demand for manufactures portable may be true in general in ideal circumstances, but not ideal in situations of everyday life. To ensure that the battery in your machine to your mobile phone takes hold, there are several things you can do. Here are some basic guidelines you can follow to take control of your laptop `s battery.
Choose the defragmentation – regular defragmentation is useful for your laptop longer. Allows you to properly organize the data and then the hard disk has less time for data access. The hard disk drive operation more quickly puts less strain on the battery and thus ensures that lasts longer.
It prefers to divide the tasks expected – if you defraud or virus detection, when you're near an outlet, be sure to schedule during a specified period of time. However, you can also put on hold for some time.
Maintain external devices Unplugged – It is always advisable to external devices disconnected, if your PC cards, external speakers, external mouse, Bluetooth or even an iPod connected. These are USB devices that can charge a lot of battery power and unplug when not in use.
Remove CD / DVD when not in use – Avoid leaving your CD / DVD when not in use. This is important because a spinning drive drains battery life reduced.
Set the low light of the screen – the screen lights WFP placed great weight on drums. It is always preferable to maintain the brightness level as low as comfortable for you. This applet can use the display settings in Control Panel or the switching function key.
Reduce the volume and use Multimedia Software – Multimedia Software and audio systems are installed on the full power of draining the battery. Avoid use when not needed. The speaker mute when you do not listen. All this will result in battery life.
Select hibernation waiting – always preferred mode of energy Hibernation on hold since in the latter case if the screen and hard drive off, the memory remains active and consumed. But in the computer from hibernation closed, while saving the state and no energy.
Avoid using several programs at once – Use too many programs at once, can kill your life the battery. There are also programs such as graphics-intensive applications such as video games that consume much energy. Try to minimize their use and avoid using several programs at once, because it will reduce battery life.
Go for additional RAM – it is often advisable to use enough RAM to reduce the burden on the hard disk. While additional RAM can consume energy, the result is, in fact, besides saving all the more because it reduces the energy consumption requirements the hard disk.
The use of adapters Parents – When using an adapter Make sure it is an exact original specifications. If you use a card incorrect, it is likely that more load can cause the battery and therefore damage your laptop and battery.
With regard to instructions above, can certainly provide a battery life of portable high, which may come to their rescue, do a lot of frustration for you during emergency work.
Roberto Sedycias works as IT consultant for Polomercantil.
