The Power and sleep app only provides you with two functions and four controls. (It would have been nice if Microsoft had spent the time to bring all of the Power Option settings to the new interface.)įigure A The Power and sleep app only provides you with two functions. When the Power and sleep app appears ( Figure A), you can see that it's pretty sparse. Power and sleepīeing new to Windows 8, my friend decided that we should start with the Power and sleep app, which you access from the Settings Charm by pressing + and selecting Change PC Settings | PC and devices | Power and sleep.
Keep in mind that I will tell you what settings we found to be the most beneficial. So, it will be to your advantage to spend time getting the most out of your laptop battery rather than worrying about how much time others are getting out of their laptop battery. Besides, your mileage will vary widely, as there are so many factors that can come into play, such as different hardware components, manufacturer battery tweaks, and the type of software that you run. The reason for this is that I want to focus on the adjustments that you can make and not spark a "my laptop is better than your laptop" type of debate here. Note: You'll notice that I didn't mention any details about the laptop we were working with, nor have I specified the number of hours that we got on a single charge. While we were experimenting and testing the various settings, I decided to write an article on the topic so that other like-minded individuals would have a foundation for tweaking Windows 8.1's power settings. When we got up to x.x hours on a single charge, we decided that we had done the best that we could. So, over the course of about five days, we spent several hours at a time tweaking the various power settings, testing them, and then running the system to see how long it would run on a single charge. He asked if I could give him some pointers and I readily accepted, as long as he provided the refreshments.
As such, he decided that he was going to spend the first week with his new laptop fine-tuning the power settings to squeeze as much battery life as possible out of a single charge.
He had heard that of all the recent versions of desktop Windows, Windows 8 was one of the most battery-friendly operating systems of all time (his terminology). A friend of mine who has been an adamant Windows 7 user recently purchased a Dell laptop running Window 8.1.
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