Maximize Laptop Battery Life..

1) Maximize battery life: Do you know which component of your laptop consumes the most of your battery power? its you Laptop screen brightness.To ensure maximum run time of your Laptop battery,be sure is to dim your display whenever possible.Brightness of 40% to 50% is sufficient for any office work when your laptop is not connected to a power source. Disable services such as Bluetooth and WI-Fi network connection, when you don't need these services, this simple precaution will save you valuable battery power.If these services are kept on, your Laptop constantly searches for any signals (Bluetooth or WI-fi) within its range there by draining your battery in the process. Disconnect all your external USB drives (Thumb drives or external disk) if you are not transferring files, as these units also consumes power. 2) Never charge your Laptop's battery constantly: Never keep your Laptop plugged to an AC outlet constantly, A battery constantly connected to an AC out let at full charge will degrade at a faster rate.If you connect your laptop battery to an AC outlet frequently the batteries capacity to hold charge will reduce quicker than normal.It is always advisable to plug your laptop battery for charging when the charge drains below 15% to 20%. One most important thing is never to unplug the laptop battery while it is in the middle of its charging cycle.Another important thing to remember is never allow the battery to drain completely as it stresses the Li-ion battery and can even damage it. 3) Don't remove your Laptops battery when its plugged in to a power source: I have seen many laptop users do this- they first charge their battery to the max and than unplug the battery (taking out) and continue working on their Laptop connected to AC mains.This they do just to keep their battery fully charged so they can use their laptop whenever they have to move away from the power source.Never ever do that,for if there is any, even the slightest power fluctuations, technically called as Spikes, your Laptop will behave erratically,shutdown or worse, some vital component may get fried.You can remove your battery only when your laptop is overheating >60 C,and connected to a AC source. Make it a habit to allow your battery to charge and discharge periodically, but never discharge completely 4) Store your Battery in a cool place: If for some reason you don't intend to use you laptop for more than two weeks or if you have a extra battery that wont be used for a long time, make sure to discharge your battery down to 50% charge before unplugging it from Laptop and store in a cool place. Why ? because heat causes battery to degrade at a faster rate.Also make sure that you don't block the laptops heat vents when working on it from your lap or placing the laptop on a bad or sofa. For some reasons laptops heat vents are located on the underside so take care not to block it. 5)Charging and Discharging Laptops battery: Almost all modern Laptops come with Lithium Ion batteries, free of memory effect, so its not necessary to do full charge and discharge cycle on these batteries on a daily basis unlike other battery types eg.Ni Cad and NiMH.But its a good idea to do a full discharge and recharge cycle at least once in every 40 to 50 charge cycles, this will help keep your batteries fuel gauge accurate. 6) When to replace your Laptop battery: Any electronic gadget that runs on battery,its battery is probably the most susceptible component to degrade due to constant usage and aging.In Laptop the batteries charge holding capacity gradually reduces with the number of charge / discharge cycles (as mentioned above)this degradation directly impacts on your laptops standby time, as it will become lesser and lesser. Since laptop usage pattern differs from person to person, life span of the battery also depends on the usage pattern.A brand new Laptop battery will function optimally (with precautions) for up to a year, after which it can only go downhill.If your laptop standby time drastically reduces or fail to hold full charge , it will be a good idea to replace your battery, when buying a new battery always check the original battery and buy the exact specification for your Laptop.

Improve Memory (RAM) performance

1. Click Start > Run > type Regedit > press enter 2. Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Control > SessionManager > Memory Management 3. Find the following DWord value "DisablePagingExecutive" "LargeSystemCache" Double Click on both of them and change the value from 0 to 1 4. restart the computer and you will gain more performance.

Fix a missing file in WindowsXP

If you see this following message on windows startup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \windows\sytem32\config\system you can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the orginal setup CD-rom. Selet "r" a the first sreen to start repair ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It very easy to fix the problem. do not format your partition or install Windows XP. Just follow my instruction 1. Boot up from the WindowsXP CD (use the original instead the slipstream version). 2. in the screen "Welcome to Setup" press R to start the Recovery Console > press "R" 3. enter number to select your WindowsXP installed drive >press Enter. 4. enter Administrator password >press Enter 5. you will see command promt "c:\windows>" then type the command like bellow 6. c:\windows>cd \system32\config\ >press Enter c:\windows\system32\config>del system press Enter c:\windows\system32\config>del software press Enter c:\windows\system32\config>del sam press Enter c:\windows\system32\config>del security press Enter c:\windows\system32\config>del default press Enter c:\windows\system32\config>cd .. press Enter c:\windows\system32>cd .. press Enter c:\windows>cd repair press Enter c:\windows\repair> copy system c:\windows\system32\config press Enter c:\windows\repair> copy software c:\windows\system32\config press Enter c:\windows\repair> copy sam c:\windows\system32\config press Enter c:\windows\repair> copy security c:\windows\system32\config press Enter c:\windows\repair> copy default c:\windows\system32\config press Enter c:\windows\repair>EXIT press Enter The computer will restart. the problem fixed!!!

Keep your RAM always free

Sometime when we close some program Explorer does not immediate unload DLL files from the memory. The DLL files still resident in the memory for a while and do not let the another application to use the memory in their position.I will guide you to unload them from the memory as fast as we close the application to make the memory always free. follow these step : 1. Nevigate to start>RUN>Type regedit>OK 2.Browse the register editor to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Explorer 3.Create a new DWORD Value and define its name to AlwaysUnloadDLL then enter 1 into the value box. 4.Restart your PC

How to make Windows 7 run faster

Windows 7 is a new product of Microsoft but thousand of user complain that their Windows 7 works very slow. People are trying really hard to make Windows 7 faster. Usually people get frustrated working on their slow computer. Here below are couple of tips which may help you to make Windows 7 faster.

Firstly you need to know hardware requirements of Windows 7

CPU: 2G or much more
Memory: more than 1G
Hard drive space: more than 20G,

Below are few tips to run Windows 7 faster:-

1. Disk Cleanup:- Click "Start," "All Programs," "Accessories," "System Tool," then "Disk Cleanup." The "Disk Cleanup" dialog opens. Select the drive you want to clean up, check the files that you want to delete and click "OK." Click "Delete Files" to confirm that you want to permanently delete the selected files. Disk Cleanup begins removing the files. The program will automatically close when Disk Cleanup is finished.

2. Disk Defragmenter:- Click "Start," "All Programs," "Accessories," "System Tool," then "Disk Defragmenter." Select the drive that you want to defragment. Click "Analyze disk" to initiate the scanning process that will report whether you actually need to run the disk defragmenter. Disk Defragmenter begins analyzing the selected drive for fragmentation. Click "Defragment disk" to defragment the selected disk drive.

When to run Disk Defragmenter
In addition to running Disk Defragmenter at regular intervals (weekly is optimal), there are other times you should run it, too, such as when:

You add a large number of files.
Your free disk space totals 15 percent or less.
You install new programs or a new version of the Windows operating system.

3. Repair Disk Errors:- Close any programs that are currently running on your system and then click the "Windows Explorer" icon from the taskbar. Alternatively, press the Windows Icon+"E." The Windows Explorer panel opens. Right-click the hard drive that you want to scan for errors. Click "Properties." Select the "Tools" tab at the top of the dialog box and then click "Check now" in the Error-checking field.

Check the box to the left of "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors." Make sure the box next to "Automatically fix file system errors" is unchecked.

Click "Start" to check for disk errors. When the program has completed its error checking, it will indicate whether you have any disk errors. If the program detects errors, click "Fix Errors."

4. Turn off visual effects:- Click Start button , then click Control Panel, in the search box, type “Performance Information and Tools”, and then click “Performance Information and Tools”. Click “Adjust visual effects”.Click the Visual Effects tab, choose Adjust For Best Performance, and then click OK.

5. Make sure your windows 7 computer is virus free. Viruses make any computers slow by giving additional work to processors, memory and disks. You can run virus check and clean viruses by free antivirus software ‘Microsoft Security Essential’ from Microsoft. Download Microsoft Security Essential

Windows 7 is a very popular operating system. However, there are actually quite a few problems which can affect users. If your computer is slow you can get few tips to make windows 7 faster along with the blog post available at "How to make Windows 7 faster"