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Re: Battery save app

From Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Battery save app
Date 2025-01-10 20:34 +0000
Organization NOYB
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sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
> On 1/10/2025 9:56 AM, Alan K. wrote:
[...]
> My laptop gets very little use these days since retirement.  But I took 
> it to work in the field every day and used it as a laptop was meant for. 
>   I did replace the battery once in it.  My wife's computer almost never 
> gets taken anywhere and just sits in the same spot plugged in all the 
> time.  I eventually took the battery out and just let her use it that 
> way as I was worried it would explode some day.
> Your link also looks like my new purchase won't have the ability to do 
> what I want, so I got to get her trained to use this one differently.

  As I mentioned before, I have my (HP) on a 'programmable' AC timer,
which switches the power to the adapter on and off at programmed times.

  A 1h20m charge cycle makes it last most days, so most of the day it is
*not* at 100%, the percentage which is partly responsible for limiting
the battery's lifetime. Of course this 'eats up' (partial) charge/
discharge cycles, but that's better than sitting at 100% all the time.

  A 'smart plug' would be a better solution, but sadly I have found no
such plug which can be switched on/off with a Windows command-line
command. (Yes, there are some exotic hacks, but I have not bothered with
those and just kept using the simple AC timer.)

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Battery save app sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-10 08:49 -0600
  Re: Battery save app Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-01-10 15:06 +0000
    Re: Battery save app sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-10 09:48 -0600
      Re: Battery save app "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-10 10:56 -0500
        Re: Battery save app sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-10 14:18 -0600
          Re: Battery save app Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-10 20:34 +0000
            Re: Battery save app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-10 23:06 +0100
              Re: Battery save app Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2025-01-11 13:35 +0100
                Re: Battery save app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-11 15:40 +0100
          Re: Battery save app Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-01-26 19:52 +1100
      Re: Battery save app Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-10 12:21 -0500
        Re: Battery save app sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-10 14:35 -0600
          Re: Battery save app Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-01-26 20:02 +1100
            Re: Battery save app Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-01-26 10:01 +0000
            Re: Battery save app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-26 13:58 +0100
  Re: Battery save app Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-10 16:04 +0000
    Re: Battery save app sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-10 14:21 -0600
  Re: Battery save app Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2025-01-11 09:03 +1300
    Re: Battery save app Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-10 15:20 -0500
      Re: Battery save app sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-10 14:39 -0600
    Re: Battery save app sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-10 14:37 -0600
      Re: Battery save app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-10 22:59 +0100
        Re: Battery save app Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-10 18:46 -0500
        Re: Battery save app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-11 15:50 +0100
  Re: Battery save app Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2025-01-10 22:35 -0700
    Re: Battery save app dbnnet <dbnnet@invalid.com> - 2025-01-11 14:25 +0200
      Re: Battery save app Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-01-28 19:50 +1100
        Re: Battery save app Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-28 06:04 -0500
          Re: Battery save app Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-01-29 20:54 +1100
            Re: Battery save app Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-29 05:54 -0500

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