How to check the battery health of Acer’s laptop and other Windows 10 PCs

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September 21, 2017

Battery life is a strong selling point for many personal computers, especially in education and high-end markets. Users need their laptops to be fast, lightweight, and last long enough to get rid of chargers all day long. For example, the latest Intel processor has been committed to improve the utilization of the battery, while Acer is preparing to save more battery life on the PC, in addition, Acer is also committed to add power to the Windows program, so that the user can modify the data.

If you aren’t getting as much battery as you think you should, a battery report on your PC can be illuminating. This is a system generated report which exposes your Acer as07b31 laptop battery health, discharge rates, other statistics which are meant to help you understand just how bad or good your battery is at the moment.

Checking your battery health on Windows 10

  1. Open Command Prompt by right clicking on the Start button and running it as admin.
  2. Copy and paste the following command powercfg /batteryreport /output “C:\battery_report.html [Note, C:\ can be replaced with any folder of your choice, so if you’re interested in saving it a battery reports folder you have stored in documents, you could easily amend that to C:\username\documents\mybatteryreports\battery_report01/09/17 for easy labelling.
  3. This will output an HTML file with the specified name at the specified location.
  4. Open the file at the specified location. It should open in your default HTML file handler, this will be more often than not, your default browser i.e Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Google Chrome

Note: If you’re using a portable device, you can also navigate to Settings > to see just what apps you are using that might be eating up your battery life.

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