S10e short battery life & memory usage too high

[bexband]

Hi,

I bought my comp almost 1 year ago. Now I am having very high memory usage in Firefox, Safari, & Chrome. Also, my battery only lasts 1.5 hrs. What can I do?

1 screen shot: http://i45.tinypic.com/2nv8e83.jpg

Thanks,

Becky

[KalvinKlein Community Moderator]

Hi and welcome,

Keep your system clean , delete temporary data with a duster like cleanprog or ccleaner...

try this  Disable unnessessary progs ... could accelerate (and de-loads some progs...

...on your screenshoot. looks like there are many useless of them at startup...

more about battery ...in Knowledge Base ...

... battery could be weak to a certain degree after a year...

sincerely KalvinKlein

[bexband]

Thanks for the reply & the help. I have tried some of those suggestions.

I also have another issue--I use an external LG monitor & sometimes the connection gets disrupted. I have to switch to the netbook screen, and sometimes hibernate in order to get the external monitor to work again. I have search for info on drivers, etc but any help you can provide is appreciated!

[KalvinKlein Community Moderator · Accepted solution]

Hi there.. check your settings in Lenovo Energymanagement... 

You found my settings as an example in the Ideapad S-Series Knowledge Base ...

sincerely KalvinKlein