Battery only last 1hour on my laptop?

Question

Recently purchased a laptop and downgraded to xp, after that I noticed that the battery life was half of what it was with vista. Is there some kind of setting that I can change or is there something wrong with my battery?

Thanks, Andrew

Answer 1

technology tutorial-

http://w3schooling.org/

Answer 2

your battery loses it charge after a while, u bought it in a store or from someone?

Answer 3

http://www.xvsxp.com/system/power_manage...

xp is about a 4th of the way down.  itll tell u how to set power management