Generating a battery report

[spasell]

I've seen this before somewhere but when I did a search could not find instructions.

I opened a CMD prompt using Admin Mode.

I then typed Powercfg/batteryreport but when I go to the location of where it's supposedly generated I see nothing. Not sure the issue here.

Anyone have any advice?

I only ask because I powered on my device, 95% battery and in 1:58 minutes I am at 62% dropping 33% in 2 hours seems like a pretty steep drop although I have had the screen on the entire time surfing the web for research using IE.

Thoughts? Screen brightness is at 60% and nothing else is open or running in the background for apps. No idea what is going on.

Thank you

 

[Indistinguishable]

Command Prompt in Admin Mode is good. I think you need to type "powercfg -batteryreport" rather than using a slash. Does that work?

 

[spasell]

No you cannot enter a - Must enter a /. It tells me the pathway but when I follow it there's nothing there. I don't get it

Anyone else know what I might be doing wrong?

Uploading screenshot and I followed the pathway...no dice

 

[pedenske]

It should show up in that location as an html document... but I do know you'll need to drag it out to say the desktop to open it because it won't want to open from the system folder. Silly question, did you reopen the folder/refresh it?

BTW you can also use /energy which will monitor your system for 60 seconds and give you a better indication of which specific component(s) are giving you battery issues better that the battery report could, as it just shows drain over time.

 

[kenjancef]

I just tried this... wow... never knew about this command, and what it shows....

Anyway, it did work for me, and the battery-report.html was in the System32 folder. And just for kicks I tried opening it while it was in the System32 folder, and indeed it did not open. So I dragged it to the desktop, and it opened fine. Not sure why you can't find the file in your System32 folder...

 

[pedenske]

powercfg /? will show you a bunch of power options you can check out, including some interesting and useful stuff.