Creating a new power plan can help with battery life, power issues, fan noise, overheating etc.

BEFORE STARTING ANYTHING RESET YOUR BATTERY>POWER CYSCLE YOUR LAPTOP.

Most power issues may be cured reasonably easily. Unplug the laptop, unplug the cable from the charger, if it has a detachable cable (most do) and hold the power button on the laptop for thirty seconds.

Please be sure that you do a full thirty seconds, not a "fast count" as it were.

After that plug the laptop and cable back in, and do another full 30 second count holding the power button with the laptop plugged in, preferably in a different room to usual, directly into a wall socket and leave it charging overnight USING THE ORIGINAL CHARGER.

Especially on HP laptops this seems to help

Creating a "better" power plan

First search power plan in the windows search bar:

Select choose or edit a power plan.

Click Power options near the top of the window that opens:

Click create a new power plan, and then set the timings for sleep/hibernate etc as you like. DO NOT edit a power plan, create a new one.

Name the power plan as you like and follow the instructions, click next until the plan is created and "saved".

Once the plan is created, then go back to it/into it/edit power plan and select advanced options.

Find and change the majority of the advanced battery settings on the power plan to a higher percentage, at least ten percent for each.

In general we recommend over 10% (read 15%) for the low battery level, over 7% for the critical level9read 10%) and over 7% (read 10%) for the reserve level.

That should help with any long idle periods where work can be lost.

Fr fan noise, simply setting the fan settings (if available) to stop the fan maxing out, and/or setting the Processor power management to cap out at 95% or lower can help.

This can also help with overheating issues.

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