
You just bought a shiny laptop for office and home you use or on business trips and vacation or go to down town and drop by on a wifi zone. Then that would be a very big productivity you have there. But how would you take good care of the only thing that is so handy and so useful for you. Do you think cleaning it is good enough to make safe? If you are thinking this way then you better learn some tips on how to take good care of your lappie, it’s not that easy to have one Optimizing your laptop would be the main thing here.
First thing to learn is how to extend the battery Life of your Laptop. If you are out in the road and have no outlet on sight, how would you extend the life of your battery?
1. Dim the display. The screen mostly draws the most power of the laptop battery. So set the lowest setting to preserve the battery’s life.
2. Exit or Close unnecessary process. If you have a lot of process going on your laptop without any use, I suggest you should close it. If you have DVD’s or CD’s on you DVD ROM you should eject the CD so that it will not keep on spinning and keep on consuming you laptops battery. If the Anti-virus is kept on scanning your laptop, you should stop it. There are other times to scan you laptop when you have the cable plugged in.
3. Enable Power-saver profile. For windows XP users, on your control panel you have the power options where you can set your computer’s resources sparingly as possible to save more power to your laptop’s battery.
4. Re-calibrate battery’s gauge. You should re-calibrate the battery gauge of your laptop in such a way that you should set a battery life for your laptop to shutdown or set it in a time that the battery is near discharge, in this way your laptop will not cut off the operation permanently because it thinks that the battery is depleted and needs to be recharged. Read the rest…