Get a power efficiency report

Have a laptop and want to get more battery life out of it?
Windows 7 includes a hidden built-in tool that will examine your laptop's energy use and makes
recommendations on how to improve it.

STEP TO STEP GUIDE

1) Run a command prompt as an administrator. To do this, type cmd in the search box, and when the cmd icon appears, right-click it and choose "Run as administrator."

You can also open it by pressing Win+R Key and then typing cmd in it

2) At the command line, type in the following:
powercfg -energy -output \<i>Folder</i>\Energy_Report.html


-> where \Folder represents the folder where you want the report to be placed.

3) It will take about a minute, Windows 7 will examine the behavior of your laptop. It will then analyze it and create a report in HTML format in the folder you specified. Double-click the file, and you'll get a report -- follow its recommendations for ways to improve power performance.




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