Name: Open Window While Working on Laptop And 23 Little-Known Tips
Uploaded: 2020-03-07T01:31:37.000Z
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You're working on something important when out of nowhere comes the “” notification.

You speed up, and… the screen goes black.

Adverbs of manner

You didn't finish and can only hope it saved the progress.

Sounds like you could use some ways to make your laptop battery last longer!

Play with power settings This is likely what you’ll try first, so

You can turn on the Energy Saver (for Mac) or Power Saver (for Windows) mode in your

It lets you choose when the display will go off whenever you’re inactive.

The sooner it happens, the more battery you'll save.

Turn down the lights Your laptop screen, or rather its backlight,

is one of the hungriest energy eaters in the whole system.

Dim the screen brightness to win an extra 30 minutes of productivity a day.

You can usually do it easily using one of the F keys.

Adjust it to the dimmest you can go without straining your eyes.

Change the background I know, I know, a beach picture as your wallpaper

But its vibrancy comes at a cost, and that cost is your battery.

Opt for something darker, it could even be a solid color screen.

For the same reasons, get rid of the screensaver.

Turn off the computer before going to bed Just slamming your laptop closed isn't enough.

When you fully turn it off, it clears applications and any extra info it stocked up throughout

So, it wakes up the next morning fresh and energized and ready for a new start.

Hibernate rather than Sleep If you’re choosing between the two, opt

When your laptop is in sleep mode, it’s still actively using its memory and draining

Before going into hibernation, it saves the current state of things and goes off completely.

And it’s better if you activate that mode before the battery is completely drained.

Clear the junk When you free up your hard drive, you’re

The fuller the hard drive, the slower your laptop is and the shorter your battery life.

Make it a habit to get rid of junk and caches every now and then.

Disable Spotlight search It helps you find whatever you need in seconds,

but to stay that great, it’s constantly updating its search index.

If you don’t need to use it all the time, you can deactivate it in System Preferences

to save some battery and turn it back on whenever you want.

Keep it cool When it's too hot or too cold, your laptop

can’t work as efficiently, so it wastes energy.

It does better in cooler air than the heat, as long as it’s not freezing cold.

As for the heat, your computer always needs access to fresh air through the vents.

If you’re holding it on your lap working in bed, you’re blocking that cooling air.

And don’t leave it in the car on a hot day, in direct sunlight in the room, or near heaters.

Go incognito When you're browsing the Internet as yourself,

you get a lot of auto-fill suggestions so that you don't have to type in your username

But this function is using extra energy, so going incognito or using a private window

Don’t keep it plugged in all the time Any laptop can handle a certain number of

charge cycles in its lifetime, typically around 500.

A cycle is completed when you go from 0 to 100%.

When you go from 50% to 100, it counts as a half cycle.

The more cycles your battery has gone through, the less efficient it becomes.

The best you can do is keep it somewhere between 50 and 80%.

You can, for example, charge it in the morning and then unplug it for the rest of the day.

Plug it in before it goes off It might sound like the opposite of the previous

tip, but it only means you shouldn’t let the battery drain completely.

Plug it in when it has at least 20% charge to avoid extra strain on the battery.

By the way, are you one of those people who mostly keep the laptop plugged in, or do you

Let me know in the comments below, along with any other of these no-no’s you’re guilty

Unplug any unused peripherals USB sticks, an external hard drive, webcam,

wireless mouse, external keyboard, and other peripherals are all powered by your motherboard.

Even when you aren’t using them, they take away precious energy.

So unplug them, and also mute your speakers when you aren’t listening to music.

And turn off that keyboard backlight if you have it.

Switch off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth These two are constantly looking for connection

opportunities, and this curiosity costs you a good deal of battery juice.

If you don't need connectivity at the moment, just deactivate both.

Shut down the biggest power-eaters Check what apps run in the background and

consume the most power, even when you aren’t using them.

You can do it in the Users & Groups and Login Items tab on your Mac.

On a Windows laptop, type "see which apps are affecting your battery life" into the

See if you really need them at all and if not, delete them.

And make sure you exit out of all apps you aren’t using.

Turn off auto app updates Change your settings to leave all the updates

Larger apps have heavy updates, and installing them while running on the battery will eat

Turn off notifications Your email and your social networking accounts

love your attention, and they use notifications to grab it.