QUESTION: What can I do with a Windows laptop with a battery that won’t last very long? ANSWER: Battery life is a common frustration with all portable devices and how you use your laptop can make a ...

Higher watt-hour (Wh) batteries generally offer longer battery life. Smaller, lower-resolution screens consume less power than larger, high-resolution displays. Non-touch displays and avoiding ...

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CMOS stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. It is a small battery that provides a continuous power supply to the CMOS chip. A CMOS chip stores BIOS settings. When a CMOS battery dies, you ...

We all dream of all-day battery life — the ability to use a laptop away from an outlet for an entire workday, or longer. But while everyone’s talking about the long battery life promised by new ...

When you disconnect your computer’s power supply from the wall, it jumps in to save your BIOS or UEFI settings in your motherboard’s CMOS-RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor). But even the ...

Hibernate mode is designed for laptops and might not be available for all PCs. Hibernate mode saves your opened documents and programs to your hard drive and then turns off your laptop. Though ...