“Infinite battery life” is the Holy Grail for all laptop owners. In other words having enough power to watch DVD movies and play games, amongst other things without worrying about the laptop's battery life. The ultimate nuclear powered laptop - guaranteed to last a lifetime, sounds far-fetched, but as laptop and battery manufacturers race to develop new technologies in the search to extend contemporary battery life, this may hold true in the future. One recent development employs fuel cells however; the commercial use of fuel cells still lies some way off. Until a viable alternative is produced we are all stuck with our laptop batteries, yet all is not lost as there are several ways to extend your laptop battery life. Read the tips below to find out how to gain the most from your laptop battery: Lower the laptop’s LCD brightness – a laptop’s LCD screen requires a lot of power and the backlight does not need to be at maximum. Lower the brightness to a level which is comfortable to view.

Close unnecessary programs – this includes running multiple programs, unused programs and background processes. If these are stopped then some of the memory (RAM) is freed and the processor doesn’t have to work as hard. Resulting in lower battery drain. Use Windows Task Manager to view the list of running processes and CPU performance.Add more memory (RAM) – this is not a myth adding more memory helps battery life. Increased memory means that Windows is less reliant on the virtual memory swap file on the hard disk. Memory requires less battery power than hard disk drives, which requires disks to be spun at high speed.