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Improve Your Laptop’s Battery Life With Power Management In Windows 7

Hi Guys, Nowadays having a laptop is not a big deal and majority of us prefer Laptops for our day to day tasks. That are n number of advantages of using a laptop depends upon the nature of your profession. All laptops comes with a good warranty period so we don’t care using it roughly. After one year or so the battery of your laptop ends fast. If you laptop had 3 hrs or battery backup when you purchased it, After 1 year you will see it decreased to 50 %.

When it was new, we didn’t cared about the battery but now as we are seeing a big difference in battery backup, how can we utilize this less battery effectively and force your laptop’s battery to long last ? The answer is effective power management. By effective power management I mean that if you don’t need full of resources keep a Tap on it. When you need resources remove the tap. For example if you are browsing internet or doing normal tasks, your laptop does not need full of its resources so limit it to 30 % or 50 %. If you want to play games that time it need full of recourses so you will have to remove the limitation. By limiting the resource uses you are limiting the battery uses.

Windows 7 comes with a built in improved Power management feature using which you can limit the system resources as per your needs. Here is a real life example of what I mean…

When I use my laptop with 100% of its computing resources – Battery dies in 1 hr. When I use my laptop with 30 % of its computing resources – Battery lasts for 2 and half hour.

That’s a huge difference. Isn’t it ?

Windows 7 comes with built in 3 power plans :-

1. Balanced: Automatically balances performance with battery consumption.

2. High performance: Utilize full resource for full performance needs like gaming of Heavy image editing applications. Full resource means sucks battery.

3. Power Saver: Saves battery by limiting resources and optimizing other things as much as it can.

Let’s take a look how can we adjust the power management features.

Selecting Power Saver plan will do the trick out of the box. It is optimized for battery.If you want to adjust more settings and access advanced settings then hit “Change plan settings” and it will bring up more advanced options where you can customize everything which uses battery.
To see the changes in action you should use Laptop Battary meter. It will tell you for how long your battery can survive on current load.