A laptop or tablet often needs to know how long the device is going to run on the battery left. So if you are using Windows 10 on your laptop or tablet, here we give the steps to get a more accurate report on your device battery.
We often go to the navigation area and hover on the small battery icon to figure how long the device is going to run before it drains out. But the information show is only circumstantial and depend on what tasks are you performing on laptop at that moment. The battery may get drained out once you start some tasks like gaming or photo editing. So follow the steps below to gate a clearer view of the battery capacity left for use.
How to generate a Battery Report in Windows 10
- Right-click on the Start menu
- Select and open Command Prompt (Admin) from the menu
- When prompted for permission, select Yes
- Type the following command in command prompt window
- powercfg /batteryreport /output “C:\battery_report.html”
- Navigate to C:\ and open the file named battery_report.html
- The file can be opened using any web browser.
- That’s all you needed to do. The report is ready for you to analyze
Below mentioned are the several sections of the report generated. You might like to take a look to understand the report better.
- First section: Defines the parameters of the hardware, OS version, and other file details.
- Next section: General information including name, manufacturer, chemistry, design capacity and full charge capacity of the battery installed on the device
- Third section: Details of the time, state (active, suspended), power source and remaining capacity of the battery
- Forth section: Battery Usage graph
- Fifth section: Usage history
- Sixth section: Battery capacity history
That was all that you needed to know about the battery of the laptop or tablet you are using.
