How To Increase Battery Life of Laptop (Top 8 Ways)

As we all know, our laptops don’t have all-day battery life, so it is a real struggle to manage our laptop whole day with a very little battery backup. But, we have some tips that will give some more life to your laptop’s battery. Follow the full post to know about it.

8 Easy Ways To Increase Battery Life of Laptop

The normal battery backup of old laptops normally ranges from 1-2 hours. However, you can use the below method to increase it for better performance.

1. Adjust Your Settings

The best way to reduce your laptop’s battery consumption is by adjusting the power settings of your laptop. You can alter the battery consumption settings, and you can choose the best power saving option for your laptop in which you can choose to set less brightness and many more settings.

2. Cut Down External Devices

Any external devices that are connected to your laptop consume power like peripheral devices like external mouse, USB Pendrive, and printers, etc. consume much power. So better is to remove all of the external devices that are not currently being used.

3. Empty the CD/DVD Drives

If you just inserted a CD/DVD disc on the drive and you don’t intend to use it. Then make sure to remove the CD/DVDs leftovers in the drives. Because a constant spinning drives can suck your battery power.

4. Turn Off Wifi/Bluetooth etc.

Wifi and Bluetooth consume much power than your anticipation. As they need external signals to operate which need more power. So better is to turn off all these external sharing networks to increase battery backup of your device.

5. Turn Off The Apps and Processes

There are lots of processes and apps that automatically runs on your computer when you turn it on. These apps and process consume lots of power as they run on your ROM and effects on your battery, so it’s better to close these apps from task manager by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete on your keyboard and ending the unwanted process.

6. Defragmentation

Well, we always skip this step. However, this helps to arrange data more efficiently thus making the hard disk work less to access the data that we need. So, a hard drive will work more efficient with less load.This will definitely improve your laptop battery life of your laptop.

7. Use Hibernate Instead Of Standby

When your laptops are in standby mode, it keeps on running the power consumption, but when you puts your computer into hibernate mode then your power consumption goes to zero. Moreover, going into hibernate mode saves all your data. So it’s always to choose to hibernate instead of standby.

8. Using MSConfig

MSConfig is a system utility to troubleshoot the Microsoft Windows startup process. It can disable or re-enable software, device drivers, and Windows services that run at startup, or change boot parameters. You can avoid unnecessary programs to load at startup by simply stopping them.