How To Improve Your Laptop Battery Life PDF Print E-mail
Written by Francua Smith   
Thursday, 10 September 2009 18:58
Have you got a problem with your laptop battery life? Perhaps your laptop battery is running out too soon. Well, believe or not, there are some setting hidden in the Windows Registry that you can tweak to improve your laptop battery life. Let's look at these settings in this article. Don't worry they are not difficult to learn - experiment with them and soon you'll get the hang of it.
by FrancuaSmith


Have you got a problem with your laptop battery life? Perhaps your laptop battery is running out too soon. Well, believe or not, there are some setting hidden in the Windows Registry that you can tweak to improve your laptop battery life. Let's look at these settings in this article. Don't worry they are not difficult to learn - experiment with them and soon you'll get the hang of it.

1. Overview I've every time found laptop battery life to be a problem, particularly in elder laptops. Plug in the laptop and previously you know it, you're out of juice. It's a real problem when you're working because you instantly lose productivity. Having trouble with your laptop battery life? Usually I might only go and get an additional battery but these days, additional batteries cost money. So I am beautiful happy I found some tricks in the Windows registry that you can simply to implement for free to extend battery life. If you're interested, please also check out my tips for extending laptop battery life here .

2. Which Registry Settings Extend Battery Life? Well, the whole premise here is that by default, Windows XP and Vista is very aggressive on increasing the speed of the processor and conservative on lowering the speed. This spells bad news for the battery life because you tend to overspend the battery than save it.

So here's what you do. Go to the Start Menu and click on Run. Type regedit into the dialog box and press Enter. This brings you into the Windows Registry Editor (be careful here). Search (Ctrl-F) for a registry clue called KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager. Next, produce a fresh clue called Throttle. Inside this Throttle clue add these dword decimal values.

PerfIncreasePercentModifier - 70 PerfDecreaseMinimumTime - 150000 (150ms) I'm not to sure about the logic behind this - but I've found that it works. So do try this out.

Conclusion This article has shown you some registry settings that can help improve your laptop battery life. I never knew that you can change registry settings to extend your battery life - but the best thing is that, it works. So do try this out and let me know how it goes for you.

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice.

Francua Smith is a wise Computer specialist who has a lot of experience on laptop computers. He will help you to choose your own wise laptop computer.