Satellite A660 - Battery discharge per day in hibernation/shutdown

I submitted my Satellite A660 for troubleshooting after months of testing a battery discharge of 5+ percent/day in hibernation (4+ percent/day in shutdown). There is no noticable discharge when the battery is pulled out of the laptop. The discharge when the battery is inserted is much higher than previous laptops I've owned, but Toshiba has said that this is normal.
I was wondering if I could poll people for what they have found to be normal (versus what they have found to be problematic).
Thanks for any anecdotes.

Excuse the name change, my initial ID is no longer recognized.
I tried a simple search on this forum for "hibernation battery discharge" with no quotes. Only a handful of hits, none relevant.
I did an advanced search on this forum for "hibernation AND battery" with no quotes. None for this year, and nothing relevant for last year.
Would you be able to provide a link to the relevant discussions that you found? As well, for my edification, could you please provide the search expression, forum, and timeframe?
Thanks.

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Dear friends.
Since I had my iPhone stolen I'm searching for a way (without jailbreaking it) to prevent that my new iPhone gets lost.
"Find my iPhone" is only useful when the thief is dum.b as hel.l and when nobody has found it (yet).
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Will Segatto wrote:
Dear friends.
Since I had my iPhone stolen I'm searching for a way (without jailbreaking it) to prevent that my new iPhone gets lost.
"Find my iPhone" is only useful when the thief is dum.b as hel.l and when nobody has found it (yet).
Does Apple see comercial advantages on this situation? How many iPhones are stolen a day?!
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I would like to see a Restriction setting that would block the shutdown of my iPhone when it's locked. It would require a passcode to shut it down. It's so simple!
This way thieves wouldn't be able to shut it down!
The same works for Airplane mode and Wi-Fi. A passcode should be required to turn it off (if I enable this feature).
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Best regards,
Will
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All you people looking here on this dead thread.....
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Re-boot into safe mode.
SCAN again.
Re-boot and empty the malwarebytes repair files it retains...
Run Norton/McAfee (whichever you have) and you should still have no issues.
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I don`t know why.....
Tell me tosh..... why does windows x64 refuse to allow me to make a system boot disc (even though the laptop is all driver updated and Windows updated)?
Uninstall MalwareBytes when Norton/McAfee tells you there will be a conflict between the two programs.
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Just purchase toshiba Satellite A660: i tell the story to compensate closely to my answer, hopefully ..
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> It fell faster now thou, maybe because its on 64bit? ( any recommendation whether its 32 or 64bit) specs: i5 , 4ram, 1g ddcatd graphics , win7 home premium, ..
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