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emailing editing photos and listening to music can all take a toll in your laptop's battery life one simple step to improve it is to stop multitasking all of those open programs will drain your battery much faster if you use your laptop for the office suite turn off the auto safe function on Word and Excel because they keep saving at regular intervals they work your hard drive harder that it may have two devices that plug in through a USB port like a mouse or mp3 charger will surely drain your laptop battery remover shut them down when not in use and the same goes for Wi-Fi turn it off when it's not needed some of the worst battery sucking offenders are CD and DVD drives just having a disc in the drive can be power consuming as they spin and take energy even when they're not actively being used and finally your battery and laptop operate much more efficiently when they're cooler in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News