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How to Check laptop battery life estimates

 Whether you are acquiring your laptop for the first time or would just like to check its battery health or life, the built-in command line prompt will get you sorted out. Before we get started, note that this method works for Windows laptops. Here are the simple steps: 1. Open Command promt on your PC. You can do this in two ways: Press Windows button + R and type CMD then press enter or click on the search bar and type Command prompt. 2. Select the command prompt option and open as an administrator. 3. When the command promt window opens, type the command  as it is "powercfg/batteryreport". Do not use the quotation marks. 4. Press enter key on the keyboard and wait for the report to be generated. 5. Once complete, go to your PC drive(usually Disc C), open users, select your mai user and look for battery report file. This file is usually a html file and must be opened using a browser like google chrome. Ensure you are connected to the internet when opening this file Once ope...

How to Send a Folder in Gmail - Sending Zipped files through email - Ow-tech Solutions

How do you send a folder in Gmail? Sharing information via email has become a very convenient practice for individuals and businesses. Gmail by google, is one of the most important tools we have in this era.  When sharing information, you may sometimes need to attach files or folders.  sending a single file with a small size is never an issue.  All you have to do is compose your email, then select a file to attach from your local directory or a folder in the memory of your PC. Normally, you can send files with sizes of up to 25mbs through direct attachment. Anything above that should be shared via google drive, a storage service given by google. By default, Gmail does not support attaching folders. When you try that, you are likely to get an error message. How to send a folder in Gmail To share a folder via Gmail as an attachment, you need to compress the contents of your folder into a zip file. These are the simple steps to compress a folder and attach it to your ...

Take care of your smartphone: Five main tips that will be helpful to anyone - Ow-tech Solutions

How long have you used your phone? A year, or two?  One of the hardest things to buy is a mobile phone. You have to save for a long time or sometimes even borrow money to get one. Since smartphones are costly to acquire and maintain it is important to take good care of the one you manage to buy. There are certain basic but important tips that can help you use your phone for a longer period. Let's have a look at them: 1. Dropping your phone This might sound like a simple and common thing but it is one of the best ways to take care of your phone. I know it is unavoidable sometimes. You can't prevent your phone from dropping sometimes. This means that you can only try not to carry your phone in a way that it is likely to fall or put it on raised surfaces. If you can't cope with that only easily forget, consider getting your phone a hard case and a screen protector. These may not be the best solution still since it only prevents the external parts of your smartphone from breaki...

What consumes your Phone Battery Power - Ow-tech Solutions

One of the most annoying things anyone ever has to deal with is a phone battery that drains fast. It makes me restless.  Different mobile brands have tried to improve battery capacity but then our needs have expanded too. We play more games and watch videos on our phones than before. There are about 4 main things that drain your battery power. Some of these do so in the background while others are day-to-day applications that you use. So, what drains your battery power? 1. Screen brightness. If you love using your phone with a high screen resolution, you could be a common victim of a drained battery. Get used to reducing the brightness of your phone screen when in properly lighted rooms. This will save you some power and reduce the stress of having to recharge your phone every time. 2. Background Applications Every time you open an application and close it, it remains running in the background and consumes your phone battery. There are two ways to prevent this; First, clear all app...

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