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- Indiatimes Infotech: "Conserve power
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Your notebook has a finite store of power and this could range anywhere from 1 to 8 hours depending on the size of the laptop. But by using a few power saving modes increasing by an hour or two can just clinch you a business deal.

One of the biggest power hogger’s is the screen display and reducing the brightness of the screen significantly decreases battery consumption.

Disconnecting peripherals such as an external mouse or hard disk drive that may be connected via USB port is a good idea, as they consume a lot of juice. Also when not required remember to switch of the WLAN switch on your laptop as this consumes monstrous amounts of power.

Switching it off can alone help save about an hour of power. Also do not connect your mobile phone as though the mobile may be charging your laptop is losing juice.

Use preset mode like Power Saver or Balanced in Vista that keeps power consumption down by using minimum system resources."