This remains a standard question of any laotop user once he completes an year or two with his laptop;
How to optimize or improve battery life of my laptop?
There are simple practices that you need to follow in case of any sort of battery you use, be it a laptop or your digital camera. And those simple practices are:
1) Never overcharge your battery: Always make sure, not to over charge your battery, once it is charged, remove charging.
2) Never let your battery completely die: Try not to let your battery go below 10% battery status, always charge it once it goes below 15%.
These are the simple practices that improve performance of your laptop's battery. But we need more, we need to get best out of what we have got. So we need some programs that help us improve our battery performance. The list is big but the best software out there is Battery Optimizer by ReviverSoft.
It lets you get best out of your battery. You can diagnose and then optimize the performance of your battery. Moreover it requires only 22 MB of disk space and it is very easy to use. So lets give it a try, you will see its potential once you will explore it.
1) Download Battery Optimizer:
Go to http://www.reviversoft.com/battery-optimizer/ and click on Download
2) Run the installation file:
3) Once Installation is completed, Launch Battery Optimizer:
You will see a Window as shown below. There are five tabs in Battery Optimizer Window, namely: Home, Diagnostic, Monitoring, Porfiles and Options. Home is your welcome tab. While under Diagnostic you can diagnose the problems that may harm your battery life.
Diagnostic mainly diagnoses problems occuring due to WIFI, Bluetooth, Infrared, System Brightness and External Peripherals. It then gives you a result which tells you how much gain you can have in battery life and accordingly you proceed. Under monitoring you can monitor energy consumption while Options has four sub option, you can set time interval for monitoring, it has other general options and error log.
I must say, its a cool utility, you can try out yourself. So go and download from this link.
