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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...

What is LCP(Largest Contentful Paint) and why does website speed matter?

  Did you know that the average website visitor takes 3 seconds before deciding to stay or leave a website? Let's use your personal experience as an example. How long are you willing to wait for a website to load? If it is a website recommended by someone and you already know the value you are going to get by waiting, you may do it for longer than 3 seconds. That isn't the case with random websites. The moment you realize it is slow, with nothing to anticipate, you will leave. Google recommends an LCP(Largest Contentful Paint) of 2.5 seconds or less when working on core web vitals. CP generally refers to the elements on a page that require loading. These include photos or images, videos and text. LCP refers to the biggest piece of content on a page. The more time it takes to fully load your page, the larger the average LCP time it will have. How do you Measure a website's LCP? The easiest way to measure a webpage's LCP is by using tools like google page insights . This...

How to switch boot order for your PC

 If you have two operating systems installed on your device or two drives with different operating systems, it is important to set up your preferred boot order. This setting will enable automatic boot on your preferred OS and reduce the stress of having to select the boot device every time your PC starts. Here is what you need to do to set up or alter boot sequence/order for your PC. 1. Turn off or restart your PC. 2. Turn on your computer and press one of these keys, depends on your laptop model(F10 or F2) for HP and Lenovo laptops. 3. This will open the boot menu, acess the advanced settings tab(You can  do this using the arrow keys) 4. Once selected, move down to the boot options and press enter to open. 5. Expand the list of drives and repositon them according to your preference.(using the arrow keys) 6. When done, press escape to exit, make sure you save changes for the settings to take effect. On startup, your first selection in the order you set up will be considered th...

How do you fix a slow webpage?

  A ccording to Forbes , about 40% of internet users have reported abandoning a website if it takes more than 3 seconds to load. This makes it very important to prioritize youe website speed. Before we dive into learning how to fix a web page, it is important to understand what makes a page slow. There a number of factors that can make a web page and whole website slow. Some of these are simple things that can be fixed without any coding knowledge while others are complex. What makes a website slow? High resolution images are good for your website and everyone should have them. On the downside, these images happen to make the page heavy or increase page load times due to the files sizes. Too many plugins(apps on shopify). Every plugin added increases the weight of the web page. If not properly optimized, the plugins can make your page slow JavaScript files that load before the main content(render-blocking JavaScript) can delay rendering. Deferring or asynchronously loading JavaScri...

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