How to Get a Better Battery Life on Windows 7
December 7, 2009 Windows 7 Tips
Laptops are huge on the market. It almost seems to be like every second person is making use of one. Now with the new 
Windows 7 you would think that this new and exciting operating system would be able to increase battery life to the maximum.
There is a way which I have figured out, which helps to completely increase battery life, with regard to your special laptop.
You should try and follow some of these secret instructions which I have found, especially for you. This is guaranteed to help your extend your battery life, which will ultimately help you with lots of other stuff in the future. Now you can do more with an extended battery life, at least I know that I can.
- 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 -cfd 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!
I wish you all the best of luck in extending your battery life.
