Showing posts with label laptopcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laptopcare. Show all posts
If you are a laptop user, you might be pretty interested in your system's power management. Knowing your laptop’s power consumption statistics will help you in achieving better battery life and performance. Today , so many software’s are available in the internet to monitor and report your battery health and power usage . But you can do this in windows 7 itself. You can generate a power efficiency report with lots of information about your laptop’s power consumption with a single step. Let's see how to do this.
- Run command prompt as an administrator. [Goto Start and search for cmd.Right Click and select Run as administrator]
- Type powercfg[space]-energy (Type only the red highlighted bold words)
- Now system will start tracing your power consumption. Wait for the process to finish. A report will be generated as an HTML file and path to file will be given. Follow the path to see the report
You are done:-)
Beware of internal hardware theft while you give your laptop or desktops for servicing to a third party.
There are fraud servicing stations who would steal your new internal hardware and replace it with old faulty one's. These old replaced parts may also work for sometime but it will fail quickly. Since we are not bothered about the interior our system, we cannot identify these kind of activities.
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One way to identify these thefts is to compare the system configuration before and after giving your system for the service.For this to work you need software's which will give detailed information of your system. PC Wizard is a Good Software where you can get almost all the details of your internal hardware including their serial numbers.These serial numbers are unique for each hardware. So by comparing the serial numbers you can find whether your hardware has been stolen or not.
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Share your stories about this topic as comments below !
My Laptop battery is only 1 year old and today I noticed that the backup time of my laptop’s battery has decreased considerably than before. Most of you might have felt this problem. There’s lots of articles about how to conserve your laptop or smart phones battery power, but not much about how to take care of your batteries. So Let me tell you some tips that I have found out regarding this.
Some misconceptions
- Most laptop batteries these days are lithium-ion batteries. lithium-ion batteries do not have a charge memory,which means that you do not have to completely discharge them before recharging.So inorder to get better performance ,fully discharging and charging the battery is completely useless.
- Many of the people leave their laptop plugged in during their use, like a desktop replacement.Will this cause degradation in battery life? Having your laptop plugged in with a fully charged battery in it is not harmful, because as soon as the charge level reaches 100% , the charging of the battery stops and the power will be bypassed directly to the to the power supply system of the laptop.How ever there is a severe disadvantage for this.Heating of the battery ! Heating has a major negative effect on the battery life.When you use your laptop top plugged in, the battery will be subjected to heavy heating and will spoil the battery.
Some tips for getting better battery life
- Avoid charging your laptop while using it. Remove the battery while you are working on AC current.
- Allow partial discharge (20 to 30 %)of the battery and avoid frequent full discharges .After 30 or 40 charges,allow the batteries to almost completely discharge (upto 10%).
- Avoid putting your laptop on thermally insulating materials. Ensure proper ventilation while working on the laptop.You can use cool pads which will reduce the heating effect.
- Avoid complete discharging.Never allow your battery to go below 5 % of charge
- Use software's like battery care which allows you to have the control over the discharge cycles number, and when this reaches 30 (or other configured value), it notifies you that it's time to perform a full discharge in order to keep the battery gauge calibrated.
All these tips are applicable for your smartphones also :-) Share your experiences as comments below!
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