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the Change advanced power settings link).

Try changing the individual settings for each power scheme. For

instance, set a new value for the Turn off the display setting—try making

your display turn off after five minutes. Don’t worry; you aren’t going to

hurt anything if you fiddle with these settings.

Note that Microsoft changed power settings for laptops in Windows 10

to be Balanced. You can still adjust advanced power settings and tweak

everything.

Laptops with backlit keyboards will have some way you can disable this

feature when it’s not needed, usually with a keyboard combination. You can

also reduce the output of the LCD backlight using a combination of fn and

another key to eke out a few more precious minutes of computing time before

you have to shut down. Figure 23-24 shows a close-up of the fn-activated

keys for adjusting screen brightness.

Figure 23-24 Keys for adjusting screen brightness

One of the best ways to conserve battery is to plan ahead for times when

you’ll be unplugged. This can mean a lot of different things in practice, but

they all boil down to thinking of ways to minimize the number of programs

and hardware devices/radios you’ll need to use while your laptop is running

on battery power. When I travel, for example, and know that I’m going to

need a certain set of files stored on my file server at the office, I put those

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