Laptop Battery Power Report – Windows 10

By | March 19, 2016

Detailed report on Laptop Power Efficiency

Battery Power Report, Windows 10

1.  Press Windows Key + X, choose “Command Prompt (Admin)”  or  Type cmd in search, right mouse click and choose Run as an Administrator
2. Paste this in the command prompt window that opens the click Enter:

powercfg -energy -output FolderEnergy_Report.html

3. When the report is ready to read, you will see where to find the file
4. Right click on the file and choose “Open with Edge”
5. A complete report on everything about your battery will show.

A lot is mumbo-jumbo and things I already know, like “no sleep mode is set” but I liked that I saw this: No energy efficiency problems were found, and it gave me all the information about my battery I would ever want or need.

To see a step by step tutorial, see below:

Step 1: Right-click your start button (or press Windows Key + X)  and choose “Command Prompt (admin)”

or Type cmd in search, right mouse click and choose Run as an Administrator

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Step2: Paste this in the command prompt window that opens:

powercfg -energy -output FolderEnergy_Report.html

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Step 3: When the report is ready to read, you will see where to find the file:

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Step 4: Right click on the file and choose “Open with Edge”

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Step 5. A complete report on everything about your battery will show.

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power-config

There you go!

2 thoughts on “Laptop Battery Power Report – Windows 10

  1. Gerald {Gerry] Myers

    I activated Command Prompt and pasted the link you provided, but all that had happened is that the prompt shows a blinking icon and nothing else is happening.

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    1. infoave Post author

      You have to press Enter after you paste the command.

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