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Principled Technologies, Inc.: Battery life and performance ratings of the Gateway ID47H02u notebook
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Note: If you are unable to save these settings, please see the Displaying Brightness section above.
19. Disable automatic disk defragmentation:
a. Click the Windows start button, type disk defragmenter in the Windows Start Search box, and
press Enter.
b. Click Configure Schedule.
c. Uncheck the box next to Run on a schedule, and click OK.
d. Click Close.
20. Disable System Protection:
a. Click the Windows start button, and type System in the Windows Start Search box. In the search
results that appear, click System under the Control Panel heading.
b. Click System Protection in the left pane.
c. In the System Properties window under the System Protection tab, click the first Available Drive under
the Protection Settings heading, and click Configure.
d. Click the Turn off system protection radio button, and click OK.
e. When prompted with Are you sure you want to turn off system protection on this drive?, click Yes.
f. Repeat steps c through e for any other Available Drives as necessary.
g. Click OK, and close the System window.
21. Disable Windows Desktop Search indexing:
a. Click the Windows start button, type Indexing Options in the Windows Start Search box, and
press Enter.
b. Click Modify.
c. Under Change selected locations, uncheck the boxes next to each indexed location, and click OK.
d. Click Close.
22. Defragment the hard drive(s):
a. Click the Windows start button, type disk defragmenter in the Windows Start Search box, and
press Enter.
b. Highlight the local disk drive under Current status, and click Defragment disk.
c. When the process is complete, click Close.
Conditioning the battery
1. Plug the AC power adapter into the notebook PC, and completely charge the battery.
2. Install MobileMark 2007 v1.06, following the steps we outlined in the Installing MobileMark 2007 section
earlier in this section.
3. Double-click the MobileMark 2007 icon on the desktop.
4. Highlight the Productivity 2007 item in the left panel.
5. Type System Conditioning as the name for this test in the Project Name field in the top-right panel,
and click Next Step.
6. If MobileMark 2007 lists no problems or warnings, click Next Step. If it does list any problems or warnings,
close MobileMark 2007, and correct the problem(s) before proceeding.
7. After the benchmark integrity check, click Next in the Preparing a new test window.
8. When prompted, unplug the AC power adapter. The Productivity 2007 test begins immediately.
9. The test is complete when the notebook PC has fully depleted its battery and is no longer operational
when running on battery power.
10. Plug the AC power adapter into the notebook PC, and completely charge the battery.
Measuring battery life with MobileMark 2007 v.1.06
We performed the following steps to run the MobileMark Productivity 2007 benchmark:
1. Double-click the MobileMark 2007 icon on the desktop.
2. Select the Productivity 2007 test by highlighting it in the left panel.
3. Enter a name for this test in the Project Name field in the top right panel, and click Next Step.
4. If MobileMark 2007 lists no problems or warnings, click Next. If it does list any problems or warnings,
close MobileMark 2007, and correct the problem(s) before proceeding.
5. After the benchmark integrity check, click Next in the Preparing a new test window.
6. When prompted, unplug the AC power adapter. The test begins immediately.