Sunday, August 7, 2011

Optimize Your Laptop Battery backup With Microsoft Fix It

Battery backup is always first priority when we lookup for buy any new or and 2nd hand laptop from other. Normally the average laptop battery only lasts 1.5 to 2 years. But in real it depends how we are manage our battery. Battery backup depends on many facture in laptop like lcd brightness, power consumption, device using, OS, LAN, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi also. So we need to optimize all in well manner for get maximum from laptop battery and better battery life cycle. LCD is most battery uses part of any laptop. So increase battery backup life it is important that we set it brightness in right way.
Some quick tip for increase battery life :
1. Decrease laptop LC brightness in balance.
2. Do not continue recharging the battery.
3. Close all unwanted programs running in background.
4. Use Clear and Clean battery terminal once a month.
5. Off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth if no use.


These small tips can help you for improve battery life span and backup time also. You can also use some other tools for optimize you battery backup. I just start using Microsoft Fix It the freeware tool from Microsoft for optimize your Windows settings so that it reduce battery consumption.
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It is very small utility and you can download it instantly. After download it will start installing for optimize Windows.
What it fixes…
  • Period of time before the computer goes to sleep is set too long
  • Screen saver is used instead of setting the computer to enter sleep mode
  • Display brightness is set too high
  • Power plan is not set to the most efficient power plan
  • Wireless adaptor in not optimized for power saving
  • Minimum processor state is set too high
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When it complete installation it will show up two options one for automatic detect and apply fixes or 2nd detect problem and provide you chance to fix it. I think you choose first it is recommended option also. After scan your system you can one more window for choose option that what you need to optimize.
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All power issues that have been found by the scan are listed, giving the user the chance to analyze them before they are applied. When you hove your mouse on these option it will show tool tip for understanding option. You can tick or un-tick these check boxes for select issue or not.


Windows users can download the power consumption Fix It from the official Microsoft Support website

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