Tip of the Week: How to Put the Power Back into Your Laptop’s Battery
A laptop with no power can be a pain, especially when it only lasts a minimal amount of time. Sometimes it feels like you can’t operate at full capacity without leaving your laptop plugged in at all times. Thankfully, you don’t have to suffer from this, and with a little bit of troubleshooting and basic PC maintenance, you can prolong the life of your laptop’s battery significantly.
If a laptop can’t remain portable, it loses the advantages of being a laptop. Therefore, prolonging the life of your battery is imperative. With these five tips, you can significantly improve the life of your battery and get the most use out of your laptop.
Update Your Operating System
While updating your operating system might not seem like it has any effect on your laptop’s battery, you’d be surprised to find out how effective it is. The latest patches and OS updates can keep your system safe from threats in the online community while also improving your battery life. Granted, you can only receive these updates if you’re using a supported Windows operating system; one that has yet to reach its end-of-support date. These updates are released regularly, so you should always take advantage of them.
If your business has trouble integrating these updates and patches, PACE Technical Services can remotely assist you with them. We can even run the updates automatically, taking the responsibility from you and allowing you to concentrate on more important parts of your business.
Optimize Your Laptop’s Power Settings
Windows 8.1 has made it super easy to change your power settings so they are as conservative as possible. To access these options, simply click on the Power Options selection in the Control Panel. Some of the settings you can change are:
- Screen brightness.
- How often the display turns off.
- When the computer enters Sleep Mode.
- Where your computer’s resources are being used.