Increasing battery life by disabling GPU and using intergrated graphics?

[2nextlvl]

Hi!

i just bought a laptop for university (MSI GF62). It has a GTX 1060 6gb, and it only has like 4-5 hour battery life. I heard on youtube that you could increase your battery life by letting your laptop run on integrated graphics instead of the big GPU. But i'm not sure how to do that properly. I was thinking of simply disabling the gtx 1060 in the device manager and rebooting my laptop, but i'm not sure if that will give any errors and such.

So what is the best thing i can do to change my used graphics so i can increase battery life?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

It happens automatically on modern laptops.

 

[guanyu210379]

Somewhere, there should be an option to prefer the iGPU.
Look inside Windows energy settings in the control panel.

 

[kadec.a.mackinney]

using task manager you can monitor the usage but someone somewhere is right it should be automatic on a newer laptop with a gtx 1060