Originally posted by jnjroach This has always been the issue with Win32 Apps, they are designed for desktop environments. For me Outlook and Skype for Business and Teams are my battery killers...
S Mode because it relies on UWP Apps which are designed around mobility they battery life is sustainable.
Now, you may be able to tweak the settings of Dropbox so that it isn't doing real-time synching, see if it has an asynchronous mode.
This is the weird part. I literally just switched to Windows Home but hadn't even installed any other apps yet and I was getting those weird battery readings. My readings are still crazy. I have been just playing with a jigsaw puzzle app and browsing the web since I last posted. That was about 40 minutes ago. I did install Dropbox, but that was the only app I have installed since switching. I have Dropbox set to not download anything to my computer, I am keeping everything online. It is syncing the file structure, but that is it. My battery at one point showed 4 hours left. But that was a brief moment. It has been everywhere from 2 to 4 hours of battery left, going up and down, in those last 40 minutes. Right now it is showing 2 hours and 59 minutes with 74% battery remaining. At this rate, I will be getting 2 and half to 3 hours of battery usage off of a full charge. I get that win32 apps use more battery, but is this really right? Might my usage really go to 1/3 of the estimated time if I just stayed in Windows 10 S? With the only win32 app being dropbox that is not downloading a single file?