Well, i have included some of the important points which are to be noticed in order to improve the battery life of laptop. Just check out the following points:

POWER SETTINGS
First stop laptop’s preprogrammed power saving settings. Thi

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s typically minimizes the unnecessary use of its processor, screen and hard drive. To find the settings in Macs, click on system preferences and then energy saver. To find these settings in Windows Vista, navigate to control panel and click on “power options”, then power saver.

USING HARD/OPTICAL DRIVE
The optical drive is one of the biggest thieves. Watch movies off your hard drive rather watching off of DVDs. If battery life is a concern, stick to a laptop’s own keyboard and track pad. The other bandit is external components, particularly powered USB gadgets that piggyback off your laptop’s battery.

DISPLAY SETTINGS
Making dim a laptop’s screen will save power like with another gadgets. It would be great and can save even more by turning the backlight off completely especially when it is not needed. The time for which users would wait for idle tasks such as downloads and files conversations to get it over, it is better to turn the brightness down until the backlight is completely off.

MANAGING TASKS
Just turn off the scheduled tasks and close the applications which aren’t in use especially some which launch automatically at startup. Coming to wireless connection, kill the Wi-Fi & Bluetooth when you aren’t using them.

BATTERY ISSUES
It is not merely said that a laptop needs to be shut down if the battery is oddly dead. The computer/laptop just needs to think it is dead. Recalibrate the circuits that keep tabs on how much battery life is left by running the battery down completely and charging it back up. Do this every 30 or so charge cycles.

Thus the above points illustrates how to improve the battery life of laptop.