Turn off wireless and Bluetooth

Your laptop is always active when you are connected to wireless or Bluetooth devices and it consumes battery. It is better to keep these features inactive while you are far away from the laptop to keep battery save. But don’t forget disabling these settings may vary to laptops and their operating systems.

In Windows laptop find out the “Devices and Printers” in the control panel and right-click on the Bluetooth devices.

Click on its “Properties” then click on the services tab and unmark a Bluetooth device you want to inactive.

In the end click Ok to complete the task.

In Apple laptops simply click on the Bluetooth icon and choose Turn Bluetooth Off.

Turn down the sound and brightness

While using high brightness picture resolution and loud sound would drain your laptop’s battery. Each laptop’s Operating System has different settings, So you can do accordingly.

In Windows, you can always click on the speaker icon to decrease the volume which is located in the taskbar. To adjust the brightness of the screen just press “F2 & F3” keys on your laptop keyboard.

In Apple laptops, you can change the volume settings and system brightness under “System Preferences” by clicking the sound icon to decrease the volume or mute it rather.

By clicking the “Display Icon” change the brightness of the screen by a slider and adjust according to your need.

Disable Bluetooth

Do not keep the Bluetooth On your laptop. It keeps searching other Bluetooth devices to communicate with, so disabling it will save your battery from fast draining.

Defrag your hard drive

In Windows laptop, the more your hard drive is fragmented the more your hard drive will work and drain the battery. Whereas in MacOS they automatically defrag the device when not needed. Be careful if you are using SSD on your laptop, it can cause you to slow down your drive.

Avoid extreme temperatures

In the hot environment, your battery will be more consumed by your laptop as it works faster in extreme environment. So, always try to charge your laptop at room temperature to avoid battery drain.

Use a cooling pad

You must use a cooling pad while using a laptop, it will keep your laptop battery cool and it won’t work fast by extreme temperature.

Avoid using a CD or DVD

Copy your CD data on your hard drive before leaving or traveling to somewhere, because optical disc consumes more battery to spin. Try to use an iPod to listen to music or if you are playing it on the laptop it will consume and drain your battery fast. At the end article is closed and now you are aware that what to do if laptop battery drains fast.