How to Extend Your Dell Laptop’s Battery Life

Laptops tend to lose their charm quickly when you’re constantly looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up. How do you keep your battery going for as long as possible? Here are some easy ways to do so.
1. Defrag regularly - The faster your hard drive does its work - less demand Dell Inspiron 630m Battery you are going to put on the hard drive and your battery. Make your hard drive as efficient as possible by defragging it regularly. (but not while it’s on battery of course!) Mac OSX is better built to handle fragmentation so it may not be very applicable for Apple systems.

2. Dim your screen - Most Dell laptops come with the ability to dim your laptop screen. Some even come with ways to modify CPU and cooling performance. Cut them down to the lowest level you can tolerate to squeeze out some extra dell laptop battery juice.

3. Cut down on programs running in the background. Itunes, Desktop Search, etc. All these add to the CPU load and cut down battery life. Shut Dell INSPIRON 600M SERIES Laptop battery down everything that isn’t crucial when you’re on battery.

4. Run off a hard drive rather than CD/DVD - As power consuming as hard drives are, CD and DVD drives are worse. Even having one in the drive can be power consuming. They spin, taking power, even when they?re not actively being used. Wherever possible, try to run on virtual 9 Cell Dell inspiron 9400 Battery drives using programs like Alcohol 120% rather than optical ones.

5. Set up and optimize your power options - Go to ‘Power Options’ in your Dell Inspiron E1505 Battery windows control panel and set it up so that power usage is optimized (Select the ‘max battery’ for maximum effect).

6. Get yourself a more efficient laptop - Laptops are getting more and more Dell LATITUDE D420 battery efficient in nature to the point where some manufacturers are talking about all day long batteries. Picking up a newer more efficient laptop to replace an aging one is usually a quick fix.

7. Prevent the Memory Effect - If you’re using a very old dell laptop, you’ll want to prevent the ‘memory effect’ - Keep the dell battery healthy by fully charging and then fully discharging it at least once every two to three weeks. Exceptions to the rule are Li-Ion dell xps m1730 batteries (which most laptops have) which do not suffer from the memory effect.