Windows 7 laptops

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Optimize battery life for those of you users who really like to stretch every possible percentage and minute out of your battery thy this ...

 

Open the search box in the start menu and type in “CMD” to bring up the command prompt.

Make sure you are running as an administrator, if you are uncertain, right click and select to “Run As Administrator” and verify any account control prompts

In the command prompt, type in “powercfg -ENERGY” without the quotation marks. There is a space between the end of -cfg and the start of -ENERGY

The system will be “tracing” for about a minute, but when it is complete, it will make a new file in C:\Windows\system32\energy-report.html which you can save to the desktop and open with a browser or HTML reader.

After that, it’s quite easy…Windows will output some instructions on how to make some changes to prevent the computer for searching for files and drivers or timing itself when to go to sleep. Correcting these changes will stretch your battery life to a new height!