### How to Extend the Battery Time of Your Windows 11 Notebook: A Short Handy Guide

Keeping a laptop battery healthy is akin to the search for the Fountain of Youth. Every charge cycle you make takes a little bite out of your battery’s life. So, the next big question inevitably looms: does it help (or hurt) to keep a laptop battery plugged in all the time? The simple answer is: yes, it does hurt. Ever so slightly. As it turns out, one of the best things you can do to extend the life of your laptop battery is to keep it from being fully charged. This article explains how to do this. We cover all the major brands of laptops, although Windows 11 has not released this feature yet.

### The CHARGE JOURNEY to Enhanced Battery Life on Windows 11

With a bit of experimentation, you can find ways to make your laptop battery last longer when using Windows 11. This part walks you through those changes. It loops through them.

### Crafting the Perfect CHARGE: A Guide for HP Aficionados

HP users take note. If you’ve got that HP, you also have two excellent choices for keeping your battery cool: through your Adaptive Battery Optimiser, always on and automatically adjusting charging habits to match (usually through reducing the amount of time you are asked to charge to 90 per cent or above), or from the BIOS through your Battery Care Function, which can be set to cap your battery charge at a level of your choosing. Here’s how to put them to work for you.

### Lenovo Laptops: Setting the CHARGE Threshold

Lenovo’s battery charge limiting is more accessible via the Lenovo Vantage app, which lets you set your battery charge limit as you see fit. There is an illustrated guide that makes setting a boundary a breeze.

### Dell’s CHARGE Limiting Mastery

Dell uses a configuration similar to Lenovo’s in the Dell Power Manager, which allows you to easily adjust the charge limit for your battery. You can even set it for nearly all AC use or create your own custom charge limit.

### Surface Devices: Mastering CHARGE Limits

Owners of Surface laptops or tablets can use the Surface app, which comes pre-installed, to enable smart charging, which will usually keep the battery at about 80 per cent. In the BIOS you can set Battery Limit Mode to keep its charge at 50 per cent.

### ASUS and Acer: Navigating CHARGE Preservation

It is possible to set battery charge limits with the MyASUS app from ASUS or the Acer Care Center app from Acer.

### The MSI and LG CHARGE Cap Strategy

The Dragon Centre from MSI and the app Smart Assistant from LG give their users similar options, keeping charge at 80 per cent to balance usage and battery saving.

### Beyond the Brands: Universal Battery Warnings

For machines not produced by one of the major brands, software such as Battery Limiter – an OSX and Windows app that issues a warning when your battery reaches a specified charge level so that you can be sure to unplug – can reduce the risk of overcharging your battery.

### Conclusion: Embrace CHARGE Limiting for Battery Longevity

Being able to keep your laptop’s battery at 80% charge becomes a key tactic if you want your laptop to last You don’t find this feature natively included in Windows 11 yet but, as the above links show, the workarounds should cover laptops made by most major brands. And since premium laptops are capable of doing more than ever before – and costing a lot more in the process – you definitely want to be able to manage their batteries so they last longer.

### Understanding CHARGE Limiting: A Vital Practice for Battery Health

Understanding charge limiting may help you grasp why it is so important in the tech industry, where it’s more than just a way to extend battery life – it is a delicate balance of use and preservation that allows you to get the most out of your devices throughout their lives. Charge management is a simple way to contribute to your laptop’s life, but also potentially a way to be a more sustainable consumer of technology.