When my editor told me about the window’s built-in battery report, my first thought was: “I’ve never heard of this before?” Also, it sounds very useful! So I looked at the guide they sent (from) Laptop Magazine) And tried it. It ended up being as interesting as it sounds, so I thought I’d share, if you don’t even come across the easy hands of this built-in tool.
Windows keeps track of how your laptop’s battery works after it’s installed. The report, which you can run using just two command prompt commands, will show how many cycles you have used on your battery and how it has been used in the last three days. It will also give you a picture of what Windows estimates your battery life Should Be the opposite of what it really is.
So if you are curious about the condition of your battery battery or you have noticed that your battery life has been a stretch lately and you are wondering if it is drinking a bunch of interest due to neglect or power virus on your computer, this report will give you Should be stated.
- First, open the Command Prompt tool. To do that, you can find “CMD” from the Start menu, and click on a command prompt to open it.
- The report will be exported as an HTML file, so we want to make sure it’s easy to find. To do this, type in:
CD% HomePath% / Desktop
- This command only navigates to your current directory on your desktop, so when you create a report, you can find it there.
- To create a report, type:
PowerCFG / BatteryReport
- This runs the PowerConfig tool and tells it to spit out the battery report, which should now sit on your desktop as an HTML file.
- Double-click the file to open it in your browser (or it will ask you which program you want to open the file in, which will be your browser). Now you can see all that sweet, sweet battery information.
Warning: My laptop is in use, and as a policy, I rewrite a new text on any laptop I have installed with Windows. If you just bought a used laptop and want to know the condition of the battery, you might want to run this tool Before Clearing Windows, as it seems that the cycle count only reflects what has happened on the current Windows install. My laptop is a 2018 model, and I’m sure it has gone through more than 177 cycles since then.
Even if you are on a new install, you can see the design capacity and then the full charge capacity to see how different they are.
If you’re an Apple Pal user yet to experience, don’t worry: MacOS allows you to access some of the battery’s data, however, there’s not much historical data. To view it, go to the Apple Play menu at the top left and click “About This”. Then click the System Report button and under Hardware, go to Power. There, you can see your battery cycle count, its estimated health, and all your current power settings. To view your battery usage graph for the last 24 hours or 10 days, go to System Preferences and then Battery.