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Some Helpful Information About Your Laptop Batteries
Did you know that your laptop will recharge the battery much faster if you turn the laptop off? A typical laptop will recharge the battery in about 3 hours when the laptop is turned on, but when turned off, that same battery will recharge in about half the time.
How To Charge Your New Replacement Battery?
A new Battery comes in a discharged condition and must be charged before use (refer to the user's manual for charging instructions). Upon initial use (or after a prolonged storage period) the Battery may require three to four charge/discharge cycles before achieving maximum capacity. When charging the Battery for the first time your machine may indicate that charging is complete after just 10 or 15 minutes. This is a normal phenomenon with rechargeable Sony batteries. Simply remove the Battery from the machine and repeat the charging procedure. It is important to condition (fully discharge and then fully charge) the Battery every two to three weeks. Failure to do so may significantly shorten the Battery's life (this does not apply to Li-Ion batteries, which do not require conditioning). To discharge, simply run your device under the battery's power until it shuts down or until you get a low battery warning. Then recharge the battery as instructed in your user's manual. If your Battery will not be in use for a month or longer, it is recommended that it be removed from the device and stored in a cool, dry, clean place.It is normal for a battery to become warm during charging and discharging. A charged battery will eventually
lose its charge if unused. It may therefore be necessary to recharge the battery after a storage period.
Frequently Asked Questions
(Q) Why does my computer run so slow? It ran very fast when I bought it 3 months ago.
(A) There are several things that contribute to a computer slowing down over time.
(1) The Temporary Internet File size is too large.
(2) There is some Adware or Malware that has gotten into your computer.
(3) You have a Virus.
(4) You need to empty the Temporary Internet File Cache.
(5) Your Page File is set incorrectly.
(6) Your Hard Disk has not been Defragmented.
There are many TOOLS available ... ( FREE ) ... to take care of these problems. Others are done by setting the properties correctly . A regular schedule needs to be made and kept to take care of these issues. It is also important to have Windows current on it's updates. As some of the updates concern security issues that people take advantage of to try to harm your computer's information.
A Little About Drive Fragmentation
Fragmentation of your computer’s hard drive is a natural phenomenon that occurs when deleted files leave empty spaces amongst your drive’s data. When the operating system needs to write another file back to the hard drive it generally looks for the first available free space and writes the data to that free space. If the data to be written does not fit in that space it will fill the space with data and then move onto the next free space and continue to write the data until the file is completely written – the result is parts of a file scattered in a fragmented (non-contiguous) manner.
When the operating system requests that fragmented file from the hard drive the hard drive read-write heads need to move around the drive to collect all the pieces of that file. The result is vastly reduced performance since the hard drive head has to make many movements to collect all the pieces of the file rather than pick it all up in one smooth motion from consecutive clusters.
The more fragments a file has the longer it takes to load that particular file. The result is that your hard drive performs far slower than it is capable of in the process of loading that file. This is, in a nutshell, the phenomenon of file fragmentation.
The Power of Information
Part of our Mission is to instruct you on using the tools and techniques, that are used so that you can have a fast , safe, smooth running computer. Being informed and instructed on using these gives you the power to be in control of your computer....not the other way around.
