Laptop battery drain quickly?

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Laptop battery drain quickly?

Postby bradd1906 » 07 Feb 2021 19:26

The single biggest occupier of battery resources, day in and day out, is your laptop's display. More specifically, it's that energy that goes into powering the backlight that illuminates the pixels on your laptop's display.
The obvious move to extend battery life is then to lower your display's brightness. On either a Windows 10 laptop or an Apple MacBook, you can usually do this on the keyboard, but there are a couple of other settings to change that will help automate the process.
Similar to powering the display backlight, powering keyboard backlights can also be a big drain on your battery. First, make sure you turn off your keyboard backlights when you don't need them. Secondly, both OS X and Windows 10 have settings that will kill keyboard backlights after the laptop sits idle for a time of your choosing. This setting varies by manufacturer with Windows 10, but on OS X, you'll find it in System Preferences > Keyboard.
While the display is the primary culprit for draining your laptop's battery, I still want to leave you with two pieces of tried-and-true battery life advice.
1. Turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth when they aren't needed. Both wireless adapters use battery power to scan for networks and devices and keep you connected.
2. Unplug any peripherals when they aren't in use. An unpowered peripheral draws power from your laptop, which means it'll drain the battery when the laptop isn't plugged in.

Even after trying all these steps your laptop battery backup is not improved for good, then you should go for a laptop power bank.
Also, I forgot about this-:
End Unnecessary Programs from Running:
A lot of unwanted programs and applications running in the background, draining your system's battery.
For this, just go to your computer's Settings > Privacy > Background Apps. If you want, you can turn off the background app feature from here entirely or just enable/disable the feature for selected apps.

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