If youвЂ™re not using certain applications, quitting out of them will reduce the strain on your computerвЂ™s processing, leaving you with a happier battery Close unnecessary browser tabs This is the same thing you do on your phone (or so you hear) to save some battery. Here are just a few of the tips and tricks thatвЂ™ll keep your laptop from dying on you while youвЂ™re temporarily away from your charger.Д¬hristin Hume / Unsplash Quit out of programs youвЂ™re not using There are a few things you can do without having to shell out for a brand new charger that youвЂ™ll, hopefully, be keeping in your weekend bag from now on. But what if you need your computer because you thought youвЂ™d make some edits on a presentation due on Monday? Or you, like me, need to read your daily news on a bigger screen, rather than on your tiny iPhone (which, of course, you brought your charger for). Of course, you could just not use your laptop for the duration of your trip (or whatever scenario you find yourself in without your charger and a dying laptop). You forgot your laptop charger, and now youвЂ™re going to need to make your laptop battery last way longer than you expected to. YouвЂ™re halfway to your destination when you realize - dвЂ™oh. You throw together a weekend bag, with your toothbrush, a change of clothes, and your laptop, because GLOW isnвЂ™t going to binge-watch itself.

LetвЂ™s say you decide to take a weekend trip upstate, or to the beach, or heck, even to your parentsвЂ™ house.

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