Control laptop settings with Windows Mobility Centre

Windows Mobility Centre allows you to make changes to your laptop’s battery-consumption schemes in a jiffy, making it easier for you to conserve runtime.

The easiest way to access Mobility Center on your notebook is to hold down the Windows key and press X. You can also do a quick desktop search for “Windows Mobility Center.”

The Mobility Center lets you see a display-brightness slider, a volume control, remaining battery life and power settings, and wireless connectivity status all at once. (All of these settings, to some degree, affect how long your system will last on the battery.) In the next row, you see Screen Orientation, which lets you rotate the LCD image; External Display, which makes connecting to a second screen easy; and Sync Settings, which lets you add new devices and control your syncing settings. Depending on your particular PC model, you may see more or fewer tiles, but this is the basic setup. Here's how it looks:

(Note that if you want to keep it around, you can right-click on the search result to pin it to the Start menu or taskbar.)