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How often should laptop batteries be replaced<\/a>: <\/p>\n

I’ve heard that you should replace a laptop battery every two years. I’ve also heard that it should be replaced once it can’t keep a very long charge like it used to. At what point should it be replaced?<\/p>\n

As RedHeat points out, there is no time frame but there is a limit to the amount of times it can be recharged. Today’s computers with Li-Ion batteries can be recharged 1000 cycles before replacement is recommended\/needed. Unfortunately, no one (I know of) is going to count all 100,000 percents of charging needed to know when to replace the battery. The laptop itself, which could easily keep track of that, doesn’t (some maunfacturers make attempts at it but so far, they seem to be less than stellar in their accuracy)<\/p>\n

So How to Know When It\u2019s Time to Replace Your Laptop\u2019s Battery<\/p>\n

No matter how well you treat your laptop\u2019s battery, it will eventually die. If you\u2019re lucky, it will be time to replace your laptop by the time its battery dies. If you\u2019re not, you\u2019ll need to replace the battery.<\/p>\n

Battery death can seem sudden, but it doesn\u2019t have to. Windows will warn you when your battery reaches extremely low capacity levels, but you can also keep your own tabs on its capacity.<\/p>\n

Windows Will Warn You
Windows doesn\u2019t normally keep you up-to-date with your battery\u2019s capacity level. As you use it and it weakens, you\u2019ll just notice that your laptop doesn\u2019t seem to last as long on battery.<\/p>\n

Eventually, when your battery reaches a low enough capacity level, Windows will warn you. You\u2019ll see a red X appear on the standard battery icon in your system tray and, when you click it, Windows will inform you that you should \u201cconsider replacing your battery.\u201d Windows also says that your computer might shut down suddenly because there\u2019s a problem with your battery \u2014 in other words, your battery can\u2019t hold enough of a charge to power your laptop for long when it\u2019s not connected to an outlet.<\/p>\n

Note that this warning was added in Windows 7, so you won\u2019t see it if you\u2019re using Windows Vista or XP.
How to Check Your Laptop\u2019s Battery Capacity
If you\u2019re curious just how far your laptop\u2019s battery capacity has declined, you can use a third-party tool to view it. NirSoft\u2019s free BatteryInfoView does this well, displaying the battery\u2019s approximate wear level, the capacity it was designed to have, and the capacity it currently has.<\/p>\n

For example, in the below screenshot, we see that the battery was designed to hold 86,580 mWh of energy. However, the battery\u2019s current capacity at full charge is only 61,261 mWh. In other words, the laptop\u2019s battery only holds 70.8% of its original capacity when fully charged.<\/p>\n

Some batteries may display more information, such as the number of charge and discharge cycles they\u2019ve been through.<\/p>\n

How To take care your laptop battery?
1. Don’t modify or disassemble the battery.
2. Don’t incinerate or expose battery to excessive heat, which may result in an exposure.
3. Don’t expose laptop battery to water or other moist matters.
4. Don’t pierce, hit, step on, crush or abuse the battery.
5. Don’t left the battery unused for a long time.
6. Don’t place battery in device for a long period of time if device is not being used.
7. Don’t setting your battery in the high humidity, high temperature, strong vibrative and dusty place.
8. Don’t forget to take away your battery from the device if you will not use it for a long time.
9. Don’t short circuit of the terminals by keeping your laptop battery pack away from metal objects such as necklaces or hairpins.<\/p>\n

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