{"id":918,"date":"2013-10-21T07:29:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T07:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/?p=918"},"modified":"2013-10-21T07:29:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T07:29:37","slug":"why-upgrade-to-windows-8-1-affects-laptop-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/why-upgrade-to-windows-8-1-affects-laptop-battery-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Why upgrade to Windows 8.1 affects laptop battery life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8.1 is now officially released and you may be considering to upgrade your notebook&#8217;s operating system. Today AussieBatt battery experts explains what you need to know before upgrade to Windows 8.1 so that you will not lose laptop battery life.<\/p>\n<h3>Why upgrade to Windows 8.1 affects notebook battery life<\/h3>\n<p>The primary reason why you lose laptop battery life after upgrade is the power saving features, which was working before the upgrade, is not working after the upgrade. This usually happens because the device drivers installed during upgrade is not power-optimized.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Extended run-time Hp 485041-003 laptop battery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/hp\/485041-003-batteries.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-919\" alt=\"hp-485041-003-extended-life-battery\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hp-485041-003-extended-life-battery.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hp-485041-003-extended-life-battery.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hp-485041-003-extended-life-battery-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/hp-485041-003-extended-life-battery-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>So, let&#8217;s look at how the device drivers are configured during upgrade. There are two cases depending on how you upgrade.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgrade from Windows 8 using Windows Store (free upgrade)<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade from Windows 8 using upgrade DVD and select \u201cKeep Windows settings, personal files, and apps\u201d option<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In these cases, Windows 8.1 will use the device drivers installed to Windows 8 unless there is any known compatibility issue with the device driver. If you are going to take this path, you don&#8217;t need to worry too much. You should be able to get similar laptop computer battery life after upgrade.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgrade from Windows 8 using upgrade DVD and select \u201cKeep personal files only\u201d or \u201cNothing\u201d option<\/li>\n<li>Upgrade from Windows 7 or older operating system using upgrade DVD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In these cases, upgrade program will create clean Windows 8.1 operating system image. The device drivers installed to the original operating system will not be used by Windows 8.1.<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8.1 upgrade DVD includes variety of device drivers and devices look working fine with them, and when you open device manager, you don&#8217;t see \u201cyellow bangs\u201d. However, they may not be well power managed. To ensure best\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/toshiba-laptop-battery\/pa3634u_1bas.html\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TOSHIBA PA3634U-1BAS Laptop Battery<\/span><\/a> life, you need to re-install optimal device drivers after the upgrade.<\/p>\n<h3>How to\u00a0create laptop battery life optimized notebook<\/h3>\n<p>Installing the right device drivers is the first step to create battery life optimized laptop, but it&#8217;s not everything. Unfortunately there are many other reasons why power saving features stop working and it&#8217;s impossible to describe all possibilities in this article. If you notice your\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/hp\/hstnn-ub69-batteries.html\">HP hstnn-ub69 battery<\/a> life is much shorter after the upgrade, please try Battery Life Maximizer. It will, not only check if optimized device driver is installed, but checks if power saving features are actually working for each devices and if not, give you actionable recommendation to fix the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 8.1 is now officially released and you may be considering to upgrade your notebook&#8217;s operating &hellip; <a title=\"Why upgrade to Windows 8.1 affects laptop battery life\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/why-upgrade-to-windows-8-1-affects-laptop-battery-life\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why upgrade to Windows 8.1 affects laptop battery life<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[589,588,284],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-knowledgebase","category-battery-wiki","tag-create-battery-life-optimized-laptop","tag-hp-hstnn-ub69-battery","tag-toshiba-pa3634u-1bas-laptop-battery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}