Now you can avoid carrying an extra set in the back-pack – here are several ways to keep the juice flowing through your laptop’s batteries:

1. Defragment drive to make things efficient
2. Kill the resource gobblers using CTRL+ALT+DEL
3. Pause the scheduled tasks for when you’re on electricity
4. Unplug external devices
5. Empty the CD/DVD Drives
6. Go local with no data from drives
7. Dim the screen
8. Kill the sounds
9. Rid the screensaver
10. Visit Power Options and tune settings
11. Turn off the looks like Aero Glass (Vista)
12. Hibernate is better than Sleep
13. Open few applications
14. Have enought RAM
15. Keep airvents clean
16. Undue heat kills battery slowly
17. Avoid constant recharge on old Ni-MH batteries
18. Update software and drivers
19. Use the right adapter
20. Pack batteries if you don’t intent to use for long durations

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