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    Watch Divx movies on battery (PLEASE HELP)

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by pcharouz, Mar 19, 2005.

  1. pcharouz

    pcharouz Notebook Evangelist

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    I am going to fly a 8 hour flight to europe how can I extend the battery life to the most?
    Please help my flight is tomorrow.
     
    pcharouz, Mar 19, 2005
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  2. DeathMoJo

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    turn the brightness on your screen all the way down, use headphones and use the lowest setting you can hear, make sure the Movie program is the only process running, besides the mandatory windows ones. Unless you have a spare battery, its not going to make 8 hours. Maybe sleep the other half of the time? [ :p]

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    DeathMoJo, Mar 19, 2005
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    What are the mandatory windows processes? How do I turn the other ones off?
     
    pcharouz, Mar 19, 2005
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    I believe that there is a v.good post about making windows run faster (http://www.notebookreview.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5787), this has info on which process you can turn off. You can turn them off by simply pressing ctrl+alt+del > processes tab > then select the process you want to stop and press end task.
    I do know you need to leave explorer and system running. There should be quite a few that you can easily identify eg virus scanner, music players etc that can all be safely stopped. The virus scanner is a very good one to disable as it uses up alot of resorces and thus inturn batterylife, although don't expect huge increases in batterylife, maybe 30min at best, and as DeathMoJo said your not gonna get 8h, maybe take a book to fill in some time,!
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    Underpantman, Mar 19, 2005
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