I am quite sure you do not want to suddenly need a power outlet to rescue your laptop battery in the middle of doing something urgent. That is absolutely no fun. We are lucky nowadays since most modern laptops are much more efficient than their predecessors. The current laptop releases, even those that are inexpensive desktop-replacement laptops and the other gaming behemoths can last for usually eight hours or even more on a single charge. Also, take note that some ultraportables can endure for 14 hours or even more.
Use the Windows Battery Performance Slider
The first stop on our battery-life betterment tour is the Windows battery performance slider, a recent addition to Windows 10. It aims to group all of the settings that affect battery life into a few easy-to-understand categories. The company that made your PC determines exactly which settings the battery slider controls. But in general, keep these guidelines in mind:
The Best Performance mode is for people willing to trade off battery runtime to gain performance and responsiveness. In this mode, Windows won't stop apps running in the background from consuming a lot of power.
The Better Performance setting limits resources for background apps, but it otherwise prioritizes power over efficiency.
Better Battery mode delivers longer battery life than the default settings on previous versions of Windows. (It's actually labeled "Recommended" on many PCs.)
Battery Saver mode, a slider choice that will appear only when your PC is unplugged, reduces the display brightness by 30 percent, prevents Windows update downloads, stops the Mail app from syncing, and suspends most background apps.
Use Battery Settings on macOS
Apple's MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro laptops don't have a battery slider, although many of the same settings described above are present in the Energy Saver preferences.
Simplify Your Workflow: Closing Apps, and Using Airplane Mode
It's a good habit to adjust your laptop use in more battery-conserving ways, such as by sticking to one app at a time and closing everything else when you're not using it. It's a bit like turning off the lights when a room is vacant.
Close Specific Apps That Use Lots of Power
Multiple apps and processes running on your system will chew through battery life more quickly, and chances are you probably aren't actively using everything that's currently running on your PC. In Windows 10, the Settings App is the first step to find energy-hogging programs.
Type "see which apps are affecting your battery life" into the Windows search bar for a list of apps that are consuming the most power. If you see an app that you rarel
Adjust Graphics and Display Settings
You'll want to make sure that apps aren't using the discrete GPU (if your laptop has one) when they don't need to.
If you have a powerful graphics processor in your laptop (in essence, anything whose name starts with "Nvidia GeForce GTX" or, much less commonly, "AMD Radeon RX"), you can ensure that only games or other graphics-intensive apps need to use it, while everything else can get by using the more efficient on-CPU silicon for graphics processing.
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