How to change your laptop’s power settings

If you’re looking to lengthen the life of your laptop, listen up. Changing your power settings can help conserve battery life by preventing the laptop from using all of its power. Adjusting these settings is relatively easy to do and has little impact on the daily use of your device. Read on to learn more.

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You can find your laptop’s energy settings in the Settings menu. To get to Settings, click on the gear icon in the Start menu.

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Click the “Power & battery” button.

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In this menu, you’ll see the “Energy recommendations” bar at the top. Left click through to open a new menu.

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This action will open a page of recommendations. If you want to apply all of the recommended settings, click “Apply all”.

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You can also chose to individually apply specific settings. To do this, click the “Apply” button next to the ones you want.

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