7 Way To Increase Your Laptops Battery Life

I am using modern laptops over desktops because of their portability and battery. Laptops have good capacity batteries but sometimes they drain very quickly.

The lots of cause is responsible for quick battery drain, I are analyzed some of these and given a quick fix of each cause.

Looking for a way to increase your laptop's battery life then follow the below-given steps.

Even I have tested these steps to improve our laptop battery life.

Let's dive in,

1.set up balance mode

To grab the best battery life of the laptop without compromising performance then set up a laptop for balance mode.

Window 10 provides options to set power mode according to user needs.

It basically has three modes,

1. balanced mode
2. performance mode
3. saver mode

To set up for balance mode follow the steps

Windows>settings>system>power and battery>advanced power settings>balance mode

Balance mode automatically adjusts minimum power supply to CPU, GPU, and other important components of the laptop as needed.

Because of that, you will get the best possible battery life with good performance.

Note: The power mode is not available in all windows laptops. It depends on your device manufacture and needs windows 10 1703 or a later version.

You can do the same thing directly from your taskbar. Just click on a battery icon on the taskbar then drags the slider to the mode you want.

2.Use of SSD

Currently lots of pc and laptops using SSD as their primary storage system.

But HDD is also used in a wide range of computers because it is cheaper than SSD. 

SSD is expensive but it is very fast and has less energy consumption than HDD.

Check your laptop storage system in task manager.

If your laptop uses HDD then it provides you less battery life as compared to SSD. 

HDD has lots of moving parts inside that responsible for more power consumption.

So if your pc is upgradable then you simply upgrade from HDD to SSD.

3.startup programs

Startup programs are those applications that impact your pc or laptop while it starts.

You can disable unnecessary startup programs that are consuming your laptop's battery in the background.

Just open task manager and tap on startup programs.

See the impacts of each program and disable unused applications within.

4.heavy apps

Windows have Verity of application and programs. Some useless and some use more resources of your laptop hardware.

The heavy apps are that application which uses lots of hardware resources and also consume more power.

These applications impact battery life the most. 

To see that which application uses more battery power just open

1. Windows
2. Settings
3. System
4. Power and battery
5. See the states

In that usage statistics, you can see the application's foreground and background usage of power.

The solution to this problem is to set your heavy apps in their lower power-saving settings. Each program has there respective settings for power management.

5.battery saver

A simple way to get the best battery life in your laptop is the battery saver provided by Microsoft windows.

Just click the battery icon in the taskbar and drag the settings to battery saver mode.

This mode reduces your screen brightness and does lots of internal optimization to provide you the best possible battery for your system.

Some cons of this battery saver are you get less performance of your pc.

6.dark theme

The dark theme is great because it uses less power as compared to the light theme.

The dark theme enables nearby all devices this time like windows 10.

Because of a dark theme, the display pixels use less power to show light, in OLED display there are pixel uses no power to show black color.

If your laptop has an OLED display then you will get great battery life because of the dark theme.

In normal LCD display also uses less power on the dark theme but it is more than an OLED display.

To enable a dark theme in windows,

1. Windows
2. Settings
3. Personalization
4. Dark theme

7. Background program

The final tip is to stop unused background apps on your laptop.

unused background applications not only drain your battery but also affect on laptop's speed.

To see the background app activities, open task manager.

Stop the program that is running at high usage of hardware resources.

Sort the CPU and disc column to see that.

Which apps are top of the list that use a lot of Hardware resources?

Don't Stop any application that you don't know completely it can cause errors in the laptop.

Final thoughts

Optimizing the laptop for the best battery life is an easy task, but if your laptop's battery is too old then it loses its capacity overtime to resolve that replace your battery rather than optimizing.

But if your laptop is new then you use tips to above tips to improve battery life.