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If you need your laptop battery to last as long as possible there are a few things you can do.

  1. Reduce the brightness of the screen. If you reduce to brightness of your screen to lowest readable level it will save you some battery power.
  2. Put your computer to sleep whenever you are not actively using it. Whenever you step away from your laptop you can set it to sleep or suspend. Once you return a move of the mouse or pressing a key on the keyboard will activate your computer again. If you plan to be away for more than an hour you can set your laptop to hibernate which is slower to activate but saves more power than sleep mode and saves the contents of RAM to your hard disk before shutting down meaning you don’t risk losing any work.
  3. Make sure your battery is completely flat before recharging. While charging before the battery is completely flat does not have as big of an effect on newer laptops as it does on older ones it still does reduce the batteries performance.
  4. When you get a new battery, charge and drain it three times. This fully activates the batteries chemicals ensuring they will last for the maximum amount of time.

Click here to visit HP’s website for more information.