MBP draining the battery very fast.

My MBP 2011 is running out of battery very fast. I tried turning the Wireless off but still the same issue. This has been happening only for a few days now. Any thoughts why??

Many users see Apple's "up to 7 hours" claim and figure they should be getting 7 hours no matter what. Nothing could be farther from the truth. How long your machine runs on a full charge depends very heavily on what applications are in use, what web sites are being browsed, and what settings are in effect on the machine. To get 7 hours, you must have all energy-saving settings optimized and be doing almost nothing.
To maximize battery life in actual, real-life usage:
If you have a 15" or 17" MBP, use gfxCardStatus to restrict your machine to using its integrated graphics instead of the discrete GPU.
Keep your screen backlight turned down as far as you can stand.
Turn off keyboard backlighting.
Disconnect external drives, iPods, iPads, iPhones and all other bus-powered peripherals when running on battery power.
Turn off Bluetooth and wifi whenever you aren't using them.
Avoid web sites that have any Flash content, including advertisements.
Avoid streaming any video from the web.
Don't play any 3D games -- not even those that will run on integrated graphics.
Quit all applications that aren't in active use.
Close all web browser windows and tabs that aren't in active use.
If you take all these steps, your battery will probably last around six hours. Of course you'll be quite limited in what you can do, but that's what it takes to maximize battery life.

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