When by necessity or obligation, we are forced to work on a day-to-day basis with a laptop, one of the sections that we must take care of the most is that of the battery. The battery is the main source of energy for our laptop when we don’t have a plug nearby, so we must pay special attention to it to prevent it from discharging quickly and we are left without the possibility of using our equipment when we need it most.
In the last 20 years, batteries have barely seen the technology they implement evolve, fortunately, if the electronic components used by electronic devices have done so so that consumption is lower and batteries can offer greater autonomy.
If we want the battery of our laptop to be as good as possible, and to extend the time that we can use it as much as possible, then we show you 5 changes that we can make to achieve it.
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Calibrate the battery. Over the months, batteries tend to lose storage capacity and on many occasions, they do not quite know what their real capacity is. The solution to this problem is as simple as calibrating the battery, a process that we can do by charging the equipment to the maximum, using it until it runs out of battery again or putting it on charge again for a whole night.
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Use a suitable power plan. We all want our team to do everything we ask of them in the shortest amount of time possible. However, when we work with a laptop using the battery, we must reduce, as far as possible, the energy consumption made by the equipment in order not only to extend the life of the battery, but also to avoid that a high consumption harms the capacity of the battery to know what is its state and capacity.
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Disable equipment features. As far as possible, while we use the battery, we should try to disable all Windows functions that make consumption higher, such as a high refresh rate on the screen, reduce the brightness level, disable the graphics card among others. If we charge our laptop several times throughout the day, in the end, the battery will lose the ability to correctly manage energy and may lead to displaying erroneous information about its capacity.
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Use third-party applications. Windows has never been known for offering really reliable information about the battery level. If we want to know the level and status of the battery using another application, BatteryDeley is one of the best options on the market, a completely free application that we can download from here.
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Charge the laptop in a ventilated place. One of the main enemies of the battery is heat. Heat not only affects its ability to function, but also its storage. If we charge the equipment in a poorly ventilated area or where it is very hot, it will most likely take a long time to charge and indicate false battery levels, so we will never really reach 100 capacity.
