How To Increase Battery Life Of HP Laptop?

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Here are 13 ways using which you can increase the battery life of HP laptops:

1. Lower your screen brightness

   The screen is the most energy-consuming part of the laptop. It uses a huge amount of battery to keep your screen brightness. So to control your screen’s use the F2 and F3 keys on your keyboard to increase or decrease the screen brightness.

2. Change your power settings

   If you are using Windows 10 on your laptop then you are blessed to have powerful features that you can optimize to increase the battery life of an HP laptop when you are plugged in and when not plugged in. You can choose after how much time to put your pc in sleep mode when charging and without charging, after what percentage to turn on battery saving mode.
   You can also create a customized power plan according to your needs.
   Go to Settings –> System –> Power & Sleep –> Additional Power Settings –> Create a power plan.
   

3. Remove wireless keyboards and mouses

   We care about our laptops a lot and we don’t want to damage any of their parts as we know how costly they are. So we buy wireless keyboards, mouses, and webcams to make our life easier. But since most of the time, we are constantly typing and clicking but when we are not doing all these tasks simultaneously like watching a movie we can instead eject other unwanted peripherals and save that much amount of battery life.

4. Turn on airplane mode

   Wi-fi, Bluetooth, and other communication mode drain your laptop battery because even when you are not using them they are constantly searching for other networks. If you are using a Windows 10 laptop then you can do it with just a click. Click on the bottom right corner of your screen and select “Airplane Mode”.

5. Terminate unwanted background programs

   Another best way to increase the battery life of HP laptops is to disable background apps. They are the apps that open automatically in the background and perform their task without our knowledge. Some of these background programs are of very complex softwares which is a huge chunk of your memory. So to terminate them type “ctrl+alt+delete“. Then go to “Task Manager” and select the “Processes” tab and then go through each process that you think is of no use to you.

6. Close those multiple browser tabs

   A lot of us when browsing through the net come across something interesting and suddenly there is another catchy headline below that post and we open the previous link in a new tab and later visit the second one. We think we can multitask but the truth is we end up opening 10s of new tabs in our browser and hence this reduces the battery life.

7. Save charge cycles

   All batteries come with limited charge cycles and laptop batteries are no different. A charge cycle refers to charging from 0% to 100% and discharging back from 100% back to 0%. Hence it is important to customize the power settings according to your need and hence refer to point #2 to increase the battery life of your hp laptop.

8. Turn on battery saver mode in Windows 10

   Windows 10 has one of the best features when it comes to saving battery life by giving an option of battery saver. By default, your Windows 10 laptop will turn on a battery saver when the battery falls below 20%. It disables email and calendar syncing, push notifications, and some apps from running in the background. Though you can change it according to your need by going to Settings > System > Battery.

9. Keep your laptop cool

   You might have experienced it several times that when you use the laptop for a long time and touch beneath the laptop it becomes very hot.
   This not only hurts your battery but also damages other parts of your laptop. So the best way to tackle this problem is to use it in environmentally friendly conditions.
   Consider it as if you are comfortable in that environment so will be your laptop.
   Learn a DIY Laptop Tray Keeps Your Computer Cool, Legs Burn-Free

10. Don’t sleep only hibernate

    It is a very common practice to pull down your laptop screen whenever you want to take a break when you are working on the laptop.
    Instead of putting it on a sleep mode or shutting down your computer what you can do is go to Start –> Power –> Hibernate.

11. Add a second battery to your hp laptop

    Benefits of adding a second battery are:-
    1. When there is no other way to charge your laptop battery a spare battery can be really helpful in that situation.
    2. With the help of a second battery, you can increase the run time of your laptop which indeed will help you get your work done in one go without having to care much about the charging of the battery.

12. Use Microsoft Edge for browsing

    According to Microsoft’s claims Edge your battery will last 36-53% longer per charge than when browsing with Chrome, Firefox, or Opera on Windows 10.

13. The last option

    With time the efficiency of your laptop battery will decrease and reach a stage where it will be only 50% efficient in storing energy. So always purchase a laptop that has a removable battery and costs less than that of the laptop.
    And finally, when nothing above these methods work the only last option remains is to buy a new battery according to the model no. of your laptop. Watch this video to see if these claims are true or not?