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The longer the better: If you're traveling with your notebook, is the longest possible battery life, the A and O. With some clever tricks and gimmicks to prolong the life of laptop batteries for valuable minutes. The following tips have been proven to increase the DELL Latitude D820 Battery life of notebook successfully:

- Unplug Unused Appliances
Most important energy saving measure: Only connect the bone to the notebook, you need to work. Unplug appliances not necessary, you should. Via USB connected devices such as card readers or mobile phones purchased from the USB bus power and charge the Dell Inspiron 1520 battery. Also, devices such as USB lights are just useless electricity 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 these, the notebook must not supply the devices with more power.

- Make the screen darker
The laptop screen is one of the biggest energy guzzlers. You can not do without it - but you can also make it darker. The brighter the screen is set, the more Dell Inspiron Mini 9 battery power is required. Try, if not possible even with a slightly darker screen work. Also helpful: Use a dark desktop background as possible - this saves electricity again.

- No screen savers and other gadgets
Nice, but real power hogs: Do not use the screen saver. Instead, try saving the energy of the Control Panel menu, the monitor should be turned off after 5 minutes left idle. To do this in the Control Panel (Start | Control Panel | Performance and Maintenance | Power Options) and select the option in the Field Monitor in Windows Vista After 5 min off, you should disable the Aero interface in order to save power. The reason: Aero uses the 3D capabilities of high-powered graphics card, which consume a lot of electricity. How to disable Aero to extend it in our guide, the Dell Vostro 1520 battery life in Windows Vista.

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

The best way to do this: Go into the BIOS of the laptop and turn off unneeded appliances. In most cases you will find the settings under Integrated Devices and Integrated Peripherals. Select the appropriate device and select the Disabled option. Ideal candidates are low-power, for example:

- Internal wireless adapter

- Built-in Modem

- Internal Sound Card

- Internal network card / LAN controller

- Integrated MiniPCI interface

- Serial interface

- Parallel port (printer port)

- Built-in infrared port

- Firewire interface (IEEE 1394)

If not disable the components in the BIOS, can you can do this use the Device Manager of Windows. This has the added advantage that you do not need 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 call the command Action | Disable. In the Device Manager will appear in front of the device a little red X.

- Power-saving features to use
In many modern notebook power-saving mechanisms are integrated. This should activate and use. Notebook-use processors from Intel, for example, the so-called SpeedStep technology. The trick: If the notebook is powered by AC adapter, is the complete computing power is available. However, the notebook is on Dell Inspiron 1720 AC Adapter, 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 or Cool'n'Quiet function available and switched on (Enabled) is.