8 tips to optimize the battery for your laptop

For consumers, laptops (laptops) have become quite popular and with the electricity cut-off schedule of electricity today, maintaining the longest possible power source for laptops is a matter of concern.

Here are tips to help optimize your laptop's power source.

Effective power management

Using power management software in a laptop can save a lot of energy and extend battery life.

If the device has built-in separate power management profiles, select the profiles that best suits you and still achieve the best performance.

Click Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> Power Op tions. In Power Schemes , select Max Battery and click OK .

This option will turn off the screen after 1 minute and bring your laptop to standby mode (standby) after 2 minutes of no use. If it is not appropriate, switch to Portable / Laptop option, this option will return to standby after 5 minutes.

Quick rest

Most PCs have hibernate and standby ( Suspend or Standby ). Windows XP standby mode will temporarily stop all hard drives and monitors, but everything in the system memory is still there.

Meanwhile, hibernation mode records everything from memory into hard disk and shutdown completely. Windows will recover from standby much faster when using hibernate mode.

However, if your computer runs out of battery when in standby mode (standby), all data will disappear. Therefore, you need to set up automatic backups of your work in Word, PIM (Personal Information Manager) personal management software, and other software.

To leave the computer on standby, press Start -> Turn Off Computer -> Stand By . To give the computer hibernation, select Start -> Turn Off Computer and choose Hibernate (if you don't see this option, hold down the Shift key).

If you still can't set hibernation, select Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> Power Options -> Hibernate and select Enable hibernation .

Reduce screen brightness

If the screen is darker, it will save energy, then turning off the screen when not in use is always the most economical method.

Turn off unnecessary devices

Get rid of really unnecessary PC cards and USB or FireWire connections. Laptops often have a built-in wireless network card, which consumes energy to detect access points, so to save energy when not in use turn off this device. .

Clean the contact point

The point of contact between the battery and the machine may reduce the battery's performance. Clean the metal contacts between the battery and the machine every month with an alcohol-soaked cloth. This will minimize energy loss due to poor contact.

Please charge the battery regularly

Please bring the AC charger / converter with you when you have to go out, and use this charger whenever possible. If the charger that came with it is not good and seems heavy and troublesome, use the trendy battery charger from Belkin and Targus.

These chargers are light and thin. Not only that, some Targus models can also charge mobile phones.

Optimize system performance

Optimizing system performance will significantly reduce energy consumption. To keep your laptop using the best CPU and memory resources for other applications, turn off any unnecessary hardware and software.

Check the icons in the system tray (system tray). You can use the built-in Windows utility msconfig to select the programs you want to load automatically during boot.

To check the amount of resources, in Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems, open Ctrl-Alt-Del and open Task Manager , select Performance to see the amount of resources used. In Windows 98 and Windows Me, open the System Monitor utility by Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Monitor .

Install more RAM

Adding RAM to a laptop also significantly reduces the need for virtual memory operation. Virtual memory uses a hard drive to temporarily store information in memory. Therefore, adding more RAM will significantly reduce hard disk performance, so it will save more energy.

Tien Manh