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Use of the Windows Battery Performance Slider

1. The first stop on our battery-life improvement tour is the Windows 10 battery performance slider. It aims to group all the settings that distress battery life into a few easy-to-understand groups. The company that made your PC limits exactly which settings the battery slider controls.

2. The Best Performance mode is for people willing to trade off battery runtime to gain speed and responsiveness. In this mode, Windows will not stop apps running in the background from consuming a lot of power.

3. The Better Performance mode limits resources for background apps, but it otherwise arranges power over efficiency.

4. The Better Battery mode brings longer battery life than the default settings on previous versions of Windows. (It is labelled "Recommended" on many PCs.)

5. The Battery Saver mode, a slider choice that will appear only when your PC is unplugged, decreases the display brightness by 30 percent, prevents Windows update downloads, stops the Mail app from syncing, and suspends most background apps.

How to care your laptop battery ?

Making some small tweaks to how you use your laptop stops you from reaching for your power cord too often and will keep your laptop battery running much more competently. Follow these tips to make your laptop battery last longer.

1. Battery saver mode

When you are using your laptop on battery power, Windows shows your battery level in the taskbar. Click on the laptop battery level display and make sure any power-saving features are activated, while you may experience a noticeable performance loss, if you are not gaming, editing photos or videos, or completing tasks that require a lot of battery power, you won’t notice much of a difference.

2. Unplugged unused peripherals

Unplug any peripherals - external hard drive or webcam -while using battery power.

3. Plug it in before it dies

Do not let your computer battery drop to 0%

4. Keep your laptop out of hot and cold

Use your laptop in situations where the ambient temperature is neither hot nor cold. Intense temperatures cause your computer to work harder, which in turn drains the laptop battery quicker. Too much exposure to these extremes can also damage the battery itself, reducing its useful life.

5. Have enough RAM

Make sure it has enough RAM to do your tasks. If a computer can store information in your RAM rather than on the hard drive, it will. This is a faster way to retrieve data, and keeps your hard drive from operating as much, which substantially drains your battery.

6. Do not keep your laptop plugged in

7. Turn down screen brightness