Posts under Battery tag.

Windows Phone 8 power saving tips for enhancing battery life

It is annoying when our smartphone runs out of battery. The more we use the phone features, the more is the battery juice used. So it is necessary to maintain the battery life and make the most from the phone. [...]

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Tips to Improve battery life of Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

Wireless technology is a boon to those who hate keyboard and mouse cables as much as I do. That said, short battery life is a big problem for such mobile devices. So, in today’s post I will be highlighting some tips [...]

Change Critical & Low Level Battery Action in Windows 8 | 7

When the battery of your Windows laptop is running low, your system will emit a beep to warn you about it and also display a notification to this effect. Your battery is running low. You might want to plug in [...]

Optimize Your Windows Laptop Battery Life with Batter Optimizer

You may have already read our Laptop Battery Usage & Optimization Guide. If you are looking for a free laptop optimization utility that will that uses advanced diagnostics and testing to guide you to get better battery life, you may [...]

How to Configure Windows 8 Power Plan Settings & Options

Windows describes ‘Power Plan’ as a collection of hardware and system settings that manage how your computer uses power. The plan, to a great extent, helps your system save energy, maximize its performance, or balance the two. Windows users know [...]

Fix: Laptop Battery indicator icon showing battery as empty in spite of being full

I was rather surprised when, in spite of being plugged in and my Battery showing as being fully charged – 100%, the battery indicator icon showed the battery as being fully empty! There are times we are confused about the [...]

Manage Processor Usage for Optimum Power Management in Windows 7

Many of you may have noticed that your Windows laptop becomes hot when you use it extensively to perform resource-intensive tasks. Gamers too may have noticed this. This is because, in such cases, your processor in most cases runs at [...]

Turn off Hard Disk after a particular period of idle time to save power

We have seen how we can use PowerCFG tool to find out the health and status of a laptop’s battery. In its Error Report, you may see many causes of errors, some of which can be easily rectified by you, [...]

Find out Computer Battery Information with BatteryInfoView

If you are looking out for a good free computer battery info software, you have to check out BatteryInfoView. BatteryInfoView is a free tool for laptops and netbooks that displays a lot of information about your computers battery. It displays [...]

How accurate is the Windows 7 laptop battery meter indicator really!?

Many of us while using our laptops are actually confused about the remaining charge shows by our laptop battery meter, which is available in the notification area of taskbar. It shows battery power for 3 hrs remaining, but drains within [...]

Show your Battery state under Mouse Pointer with BattCursor

To know the state of your battery power, you have to look in the System Tray area of the taskbar to see how full or empty your battery is! But BattCursor is a freeware which allows you to display the [...]

Change Low Battery Level Notifications In Windows 7 | 8

Windows warns you when your battery charge reaches low, reserve, and critical levels. You can however, change the low, reserve, critical battery level notifications in Windows 7 or Windows 8, through the Control Panel. Low, reserve, and critical levels in [...]

IE8 beats Firefox, Safari, Opera & Chrome in battery life

Seven years ago, the browser wars seemed all but ended. AOL bought out Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer dominated the market, and the era of browser-based exploits began. In 2003, Microsoft’s stranglehold on the browser market didn’t change much, but the [...]

Laptop Battery Usage & Optimization Guide.

The power management technologies in Windows 7 provide platform and processor efficiencies that reduce power consumption and can help lower energy costs. It also provides a better user experience with longer battery life for specific scenarios.

Power Management Improvements in Windows 7

Microsoft has designed Windows 7 with a strong focus on reducing the overall power consumption by investing in key areas of the platform including performance optimizations, idle resource utilization, device power management, and key end-user scenarios.

Power Efficiency Diagnostic Report Tool in Windows 7

Windows includes a powerful command-line tool called PowerCFG that is very useful in troubleshooting Power Plans. Moreover this tool will also allow you to enable and disable devices. In this article, we will learn how to use PowerCGF to find out the [...]

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