How to Prolong Your Battery Life

Does your laptop easily run out of battery?

Have you experienced working on something then suddenly your machine shuts off?

It’s quite annoying right? How can you avoid such things and enjoy a longer battery life?

The following are tips on how to extract more juice from your laptop’s battery performance.

5 Simple Tips to Increase Battery Life

1. Defrag regularly – The faster your hard drive does its work – less demand you are going to put on the hard drive and your battery. Make your hard drive as efficient as possible by defragging it regularly.

2. Dim your screen – Most laptops come with the ability to dim laptop screen. Some even come with ways to modify CPU and cooling performance. Cut them down to the lowest level you can tolerate to squeeze out some extra battery juice.

3. Cut down on programs running in the background –  iTunes, Desktop Search. All these add to the CPU load and cut down battery life. Shut down everything that isn’t crucial when you’re on battery.

4. Keep the battery contacts clean – Clean your battery’s metal contacts every couple of months with a cloth moistened with rubbing alcohol. This keeps the transfer of power from your battery more efficient.

5. Hibernate not standby – Although placing a laptop in standby mode saves some power and you can instantly resume where you left off, it doesn’t save anywhere as much power as the hibernate function does.

Do these tips and enjoy longer battery life!