Improve Battery Life提高电池寿命

Once again, Martin at ghacks presents a great computing tip, this time on how to再次，马丁在ghacks提出了一个伟大的计算小费，这一次关于如何 extend notebook battery life延长笔记本电脑的电池寿命 using使用 SpeedSwitchXP . 。 This application lets you take control of your CPU speed so that you can slow it down and so use less power when you aren’t running CPU-intensive applications.此应用程序让你控制你的CPU速度，让您可以慢下来，因此使用较少的电力时，您没有运行CPU密集型的应用。 You could call it underclocking, as opposed to你可以称之为underclocking ，而不是 overclocking超频 . 。 To be honest, I thought this was something that was built in to some PCs already, but obviously not.老实说，我认为这是一些建于一些电脑了，但显然不是。

Anyway, as is often the case, an even better tip turned up in the comments for his post from Cam who pointed readers to不管怎么说，这是经常发生的情况，一个更美好的冰山出现在评论他的职位由凸轮谁指出读者 Notebook Hardware Control笔记本电脑硬件控制 . 。 I have to admit this looks like a far more powerful tool than SpeedSwitch.我不得不承认这看起来像一个更为强大的工具比SpeedSwitch 。 Not only does it allow you to control the power consumption of your CPU and so它不仅允许你控制能量消耗的CPU和使 boost your battery提高您的电池 , it provides the following features: ，它提供下列功能：

• Control the hardware and system power management控制硬件和系统的电源管理
• Customize the notebook (open source ACPI Control System)自笔记本电脑（开源ACPI的控制系统）
• Prolong the battery lifetime延长电池寿命
• Cool down the system and reduce power consumption降温系统和降低能耗
• Monitor the hardware to avoid system failure监视器的硬件，以避免系统故障
• Make your notebook quiet让您的笔记本安静

Get the settings right and you should see a much improved uptime when operating on battery.获得设置权，你应该会看到一个很大的改进正常运行时使用电池。 More than that, improved battery life means you are using less power overall, and that means a greener notebook.更重要的是，改善电池寿命意味着你使用的是低功耗整体，这意味着环保的笔记本电脑。 Unfortunately, the Pro version costs money, which is where Sciencetext reader Slartibartfast comes to the rescue:不幸的是，专业版费钱，这就是Sciencetext读者Slartibartfast来拯救：

I would suggest you take a look at我建议你看一看 SpeedFan , therefore, which is a fully-functioning and free alternative.因此，这是一个全功能和自由选择。