Simplest and Easy Ways To Increase (Extend) Your Laptop's Battery Life

There are many factors affect the amount of time that a Laptop battery can supply power before it must be recharged, Here are some more tips to improve your Laptop's battery life:

1. Turn off Auto-save features in Microsoft Office and other applications.

2. Adjust your screen brightness - Dimming your display saves battery power.

3. Decrease or mute the Laptop Speaker Volume.

4. Don't play computer games, music or DVD movies - Multimedia activities drain laptop batteries.

5. Tweak Windows Power Options - Choose a Laptop power scheme that turns off the notebook monitor and hard disk after 10 minutes of inactivity.

6. Disconnect all external device like PC Card modems, Firewire, USB devices and optical drives. Use the notebook touchpad instead of an external mouse.

7. If your PC has a built-in wireless card, turn it off or disable it when not in use.

8. Turn off Wi-Fi and BlueTooth - Most laptops have shortcut keys to instantly disable wireless networking

9. If you do not use your laptop for extended periods of time (a week or more), remove the battery pack from the laptop.

10. Do not expose the battery to high heat or freezing temperatures. Do not leave your battery in your car in the summer. Hot batteries discharge very quickly, and cold ones can't create as much power.

11. Make sure to plug your laptop charger adapter into a UPS and not directly into a power outlet or surge protector.

12. If you have a nickel-metal hydride battery, completely drain and recharge the battery once a month to maximize its capacity to hold a charge.

13. Fully charge new battery packs before use. New pack needs to be fully charged and discharged (cycled) a few times before it can condition to full capacity.

14. Leaving a battery in a laptop while using an electrical outlet for long periods of time will keep the battery in a constant state of charging up and that will reduce the life cycle of the battery.

15. Programs that are run from a CD or DVD can be copied to and run from the hard drive, which typically consumes less power than an optical drive.

Conclusion
So there you have it, the 15 best easy ways to extend your laptop's battery life, fill free to leave a comment below if you have any tips on ways to extend a laptops battery life.