How to maximize windows 7 pc battery life? This is one of those questions that most of do not ever care about.But how long your laptop battery lasts does count at times when you really need it.
You may have even changed your power plan to power saver but this is not the end of it as many other factors also contribute towards your battery life.
In this post we will see how you can get a detailed report of all those hidden factors that are causing your computers battery power to drain at a speed that you have almost no knowledge of.
To start with open your command prompt with administrator rights-Type Cmd in your start menu search box and right click on the command prompt,select Run as administrator.
You can also launch from within firefox-Launch any external application from within firefox.
Now type this in your command prompt window:-
Powercfg -energy
Command to generate power report in windows 7
Wait for a 60 seconds as it takes sometime for the report to produced and you can open the generated report in firefox as its saved in html format.
Once the report has been produced,see where has it been saved navigate to that folder and doulbe click on it.
How to analyze your computer’s battery report (power efficiency report)?
This report is split into 4 parts and all of them are not that important so you don’t really need to panic.
From to bottom you will see:-
1-Some info about your computer such as the name of your pc,manufacturer etc
Basic Info
2-This is the most important part of the battery report generated (contains errors)-After you read this section you will be getting some ideas as to what exactly is this part about.Try to fix these problems as these may account for draining more that 20 percent of your computers battery power.
Power Efficiency report-Errors
3-These are the warnings and if you think you can fix these problems then this will boost your battery to some extent
Battery warnings
4-This part of your windows battery report is just a information on which parts of your computer were inspected to generate the windows battery report.
Power efficincy report-Information
This report may be overwhelming but then in my case I had to only remove my external flash drive and my battery lasted for about 10 more minutes(that’s not huge but does count).You may ask your questions for particular errors that you get in the comments section.
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My company laptop still stuck with Windows XP. Will be upgraded next year Q2 if not mistaken. Looking forward to use all the nice Windows 7 features.
its really nice and fast,u’ll love it
Nice money savvy tips. As I know Windows 7 use less electric than any other Windows version and these tips going to make it more power savvy.
yeah of course
Great tips! All this while, my battery is already can be used for a long time because I’m using Dell and their product is really good. Maybe I can increase the performance if I follow your tips. Thanks!
yeah y not,atleat u are come to know wat programs are are actually consuming ur battery power