Microsoft Releases Fixit to Automatically Diagnose and Fix Power Consumption Problems and Extend Laptop Battery Life

Laptop and Netbook owners are always worried about battery backup time. They always want to increase the battery backup time as much as they can. Now no need to worry. Microsoft has released a new Fixit which automatically detects system settings that can affect power usage, such as timeout and sleep settings, display settings, and screensavers, and restores them to their default settings.

What it fixes:

• Period of time before the computer goes to sleep is set too long
• Screen saver is used instead of setting the computer to enter sleep mode
• Display brightness is set too high
• Power plan is not set to the most efficient power plan
• Wireless adapter in not optimized for power saving
• Minimum processor state is set too high

You can download the Fixit using following link:
Download Link

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