QUESTION: What can I do with a Windows laptop with a battery that won’t last very long? ANSWER: Battery life is a common frustration with all portable devices and how you use your laptop can make a ...

Laptop batteries can be a bit of a mystery. You’ve been told when you bought your laptop that its battery can last a certain length of time, but can it really last that long? You don’t have to sit on ...

If your laptop battery shows 100% but dies when unplugged, the issue might be with the charger. There is a possibility that the charger you are using is not providing sufficient power to your laptop ...

A dead laptop battery can kill your work right where it stands, shutting off your computer before you have a chance to save. Laptop batteries degrade over time, and the battery life you enjoyed when ...

Windows Modern Standby—also known as InstantGo and Windows S0 sleep state—has been busted ever since Microsoft introduced it ...

If after changing the CMOS battery your computer won’t boot, this article will help you fix the problem. CMOS battery provides continuous power to the BIOS chip. BIOS chip stores all the BIOS settings ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Whether they’re in our computers, cell phones, or cars, the only time we think about batteries is when they’re almost dead and we need to find some place to charge them—and then we’re not thinking ...

Before anything else we must acknowledge that today’s laptop battery is not an ordinary battery pack with a bunch of rechargeable cells inside. It is in fact a smart battery pack. This is the typical ...