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The longer the better: If you are traveling with your notebook, is the longest possible battery life, the A and O. With some clever tricks and gimmicks to extend the term of notebook batteries by precious minutes. The following tips have proven to increase the life of the Dell Studio 1737 battery successfully:

- Unplugging unused appliances
Most important energy saving measure: Only connect the bone to the notebook, you need to work. Unplugging unneeded devices you should. Via USB connected devices such as card readers or mobile phones purchased through the USB bus power and charge the Dell Inspiron 6400 battery. Also, devices such as USB lights are just useless power consumers. Also check, whether stuck in the PCMCIA slot (PC card slot) or cards that you do not need – such as network cards or wireless cards. If you remove them, you have the notebook no longer provide the equipment with electricity.

- Make the screen dark
The laptop screen is one of the biggest power guzzlers. You can not do without it – but it may darken. The brighter the screen is set, the more Dell Latitude E4300 battery power is required. Try, if not possible even with a slightly darker screen work. Also helpful: Use a dark screen background as possible – this saves power again.

- Waiver of screen savers and other gadgets
Beautiful, but consumers of electricity: Do not use the screen saver. Instead, place in the energy-saving Menu of the Control Panel, that the monitor off after 5 minutes of entering break. To do this in the Control Panel (Start | Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | Power Options) And select the field Turn off monitor option After 5 min. In Windows Vista, you should disable the Aero interface in order to save power. This is because Aero uses the performance-intensive functions of the 3D graphics card, which consume a lot of electricity. How to disable Aero, you will learn in our guide The Dell Precision M6300 battery life in Windows Vista extend.

- Turn off unused hardware
Many laptops are already equipped with lots of home additional hardware: Infrared port, WLAN, Bluetooth, network card, modem, Firewire interface Selle, printer port, and much more. This notebook is indeed a universal work tool. However, even for universal power guzzlers. For all the integrated components need power. Therefore, our hot tip: Turn off all accessories that you do not need. Example, if you only go into the net via wireless, you can turn off the built-in network card and Bluetooth. This saves power and processing power.

The best way to do this: Go into the BIOS of the laptop and disable the unused equipment there. In most cases you will find the settings under Integrated Devices or Integrated Peripherals. Select the appropriate device and select the option Disabled. Ideal low-power candidates include:

- Internal Wireless Adapter

- Internal Modem

- Internal sound card

- Internal network card / LAN controller

- Integrated MiniPCI interface

- Serial interface

- Parallel port (Printer port)

- Built-in infrared port

- Firewire port (IEEE 1394)

If not turn off the components in the BIOS allow, you can also use the Device Manager of Windows. This has the added advantage that you do not have to restart the computer if you want to activate the device again. A mouse in Device Manager is sufficient, for example, the wireless adapter back to life. Click the Device Manager (Start | Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | System | Hardware | Device Manager) To the desired device, and select the command Action | Disable on. In the Device Manager will appear before the device is a small red X.

- Power saving features to use
In many modern notebooks power management mechanisms are integrated. This should activate and use. Notebook-use processors from Intel, for example, the so-called SpeedStepTechnology. The trick: If the notebook is powered by AC adapter, the complete processing power is available. However, the notebook is in Dell Latitude D505 battery mode, the processor automatically adjusts the computational requirements. It works just as fast as currently required. AMD uses the technology called Cool’n'Quiet (Cool and quiet).

Check in the BIOS of your notebook, whether the SpeedStep and Cool’n'Quiet feature available and enabled (Enabled) Is.

In the BIOS, you can still turn on other power saving features. Make sure that the functions APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) on (Enabled) Are. APM and ACPI work hand in hand with the operating system and provide for minimum energy consumption. In the Control Panel in Windows, you can then activate the power saving mode. To do this in the Control Panel (Start | Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | Power Options) And select from the list Power Schemes the entry Minimal energy consumption or Max Battery.