| Customize your laptop power options for better battery life
By Ed Bott
Windows 10 does a generally good job with managing battery life on a laptop. But you can prevent one potentially annoying source of battery drain with a simple tweak.
By default, when you close the lid on a laptop running Windows 10, the operating system goes into a sleep state, but it continues to run in the background. Those activities use a fraction of the power that the system uses when it's fully awake, but the cumulative impact can add up, especially over the course of several days. The worst-case scenario is that you reopen the lid and discover that your battery is critically low, just as you're getting ready to leave the office.
The solution is to reconfigure the laptop's power options so that it automatically hibernates when you close the lid. When hibernating, Windows 10 doesn't process any background tasks and therefore doesn't drain the battery.
To make the change, go to Settings > System > Power & Sleep, and then click Additional Power Settings. That opens the old-style Control Panel, with Power Options selected. Click Choose What Closing The Lid Does and change the On Battery setting from Sleep to Hibernate. Click Save Changes to make the reconfiguration effective. With the advent of widespread Internet of Things (IoT) adoption in enterprise applications including manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, and more—alongside an increasing dependence on smartphones and always-connected computers—the constraints of 4G LTE technology are prompting mobile network operators to embark on an accelerated rollout of 5G communications to keep pace with the network demands of today and the very near future. The 30 silliest Raspberry Pi projects Does your company use virtual reality (VR) technology? Does your company use augmented reality (AR) technology? Let us know. Take this quick survey and get a free copy of the final research report. A special feature from ZDNet and TechRepublic |
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