Save on electricity and get the most out of your laptop computer when you aren't plugged in. Here are ten steps to make your laptop battery last longer.
Step 1 Dim your screen
Step 2 Turn off programs walking in the back ground that you aren't using
For most laptops dimming is a button on the top row that looks like a sun with a down arrow. Press it repeatedly to reach the dimmest screen setting you can still function with.
Programs like Itunes, chat programs, Windows Customer Experience Middle. All of these take laptop computer battery life to run, you can extend your battery juice a small bit farther by turning them off. You may even go as far as to set them up not to auto start. This will also decrease the amount of time it takes to start up your computer. In the event you use an e-mail program like gmail or yahoo you can pick to turn off the chat functions and run on the html setting. You will need to by hand refresh to see updates, but you will use a lot less energy.
Step 3 Run off a hard drive or jump drive than a CD or DVD
Step 4 Turn your computer off or to hibernate mode
CDs and DVDs need to spin to function. Spinning takes energy. Hard drives and jump drives don't spin.
A sleeping computer or a computer on standby is still using a small bit of energy so that it can start up quickly right were you left off. To preserve the most energy turn it all the way off or set it to hibernate.
Step 5 Optimize your power settings
Most laptops have a power setting option. Click on the battery icon on your and you ought to get the option for several power modes. Pick the one that is called power saver or something similar. Some laptops will automatically switch when they aren't plugged in.
Step 6 Don't use sound
Turn the sound off on your computer it takes up to three times more energy to play sound than use the screen of your laptop computer. In the event you must have sound, use your headphones. They take far less energy.
Step 7 Don't have multiple programs walking
Step 8 Keep your temperatures down
When you are working off your acer aspire laptop battery use only one program at a time. E-mail that refreshes itself constantly can be a massive drain on the battery, so close it when you aren't using it directly.
A hot computer is an inefficient computer. Use the canned designed to clean electronics to clean out the vents. They are often on the bottom of your laptop computer. Also in the event you are using your laptop computer on a soft surface like a pillow you possibly blocking those vents and your computer isn't cooling properly. Get a lap board or a massive laptop to set your computer on in lieu.
Step 9 Defrag your hard drive
You can have a more efficient computer not in how fast it can do the tasks you give it but in the energy it makes use of by basically defragging it. Apples tend to not need as much defragging as PCs.
