When we buy a new Laptop, we usually get good battery life out of it. But after 2 or more years you will notice that your laptop’s battery life is getting shorter and shorter even though you have charged your laptop’s battery to Full Charge. It is normal for the battery’s capacity to diminish over time but the speed of this degradation depends on if you took proper care of the battery or not. In today’s post, I will recommend you a application that will show the Designed Capacity of your Battery and also show the Capacity it has left.
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Microsoft has recently released Windows 10 which if you have Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8.1, you are eligible for this upgrade (Except for folks running Enterprise Editions). But what if after the upgrade, you wanted to do a clean install of Windows 10 instead of merely using the built in reset feature? I will show you what you need to do in order to create a Windows 10 ISO/USB Installation Media for a Clean install.
Power Settings on an Operating System can have different effects on system performance. If you want to use less energy and allow your Laptop to run longer then you would set your Power Settings to save power at the cost of performance. In most cases on a PC or Server, you do not want to have any power savings as you want the max performance you can get out of a system. Power Options are sometimes not set properly after setting up a new Operating System Installation or is overlooked when troubleshooting performance issues. You may have a high end CPU with many cores but for some reason even under light load, the CPU usage is over 50%. In this post I will mainly be looking at the Windows Operating System when it comes to Power Settings and things to look for to make sure that your System is running at it’s peak performance.