INFORMATICS

Get a detailed battery report in Windows 10/11

If you’re interested in getting more technical info about your battery usage and estimated capacity, you can use the Powerfg command-line option that’s built into Windows 11 to generate a battery report.

1. Select Search on the taskbar, type Command prompt, press and hold (or right-click) Command prompt, and then select Run as administrator > Yes.

2. At the command prompt, type powercfg /batteryreport, then press Enter.
   
   The battery report will be an HTML file that’s stored in a folder on your PC. The file location will be shown in the Command Prompt window.

3. Open File Explorer, go to the folder that the report was saved to, and then double-click the battery report (HTML file) to open it in your web browser.

More commands:

powercfg /?

Command List:
/LIST, /L Lists all power schemes.

/QUERY, /Q Displays the contents of a power scheme.

/CHANGE, /X Modifies a setting value in the current power scheme.

/CHANGENAME Modifies the name and description of a power scheme.

/DUPLICATESCHEME Duplicates a power scheme.

/DELETE, /D Deletes a power scheme.

/DELETESETTING Deletes a power setting.

/SETACTIVE, /S Makes a power scheme active on the system.

/GETACTIVESCHEME Retrieves the currently active power scheme.

/SETACVALUEINDEX Sets the value associated with a power setting
while the system is powered by AC power.

/SETDCVALUEINDEX Sets the value associated with a power setting
while the system is powered by DC power.

/IMPORT Imports all power settings from a file.

/EXPORT Exports a power scheme to a file.

/ALIASES Displays all aliases and their corresponding GUIDs.

/GETSECURITYDESCRIPTOR
Gets a security descriptor associated with a specified
power setting, power scheme, or action.

/SETSECURITYDESCRIPTOR
Sets a security descriptor associated with a
power setting, power scheme, or action.

/HIBERNATE, /H Enables and disables the hibernate feature.

/AVAILABLESLEEPSTATES, /A
Reports the sleep states available on the system.

/DEVICEQUERY Returns a list of devices that meet specified criteria.

/DEVICEENABLEWAKE Enables a device to wake the system from a sleep state.

/DEVICEDISABLEWAKE Disables a device from waking the system from a sleep
state.

/LASTWAKE Reports information about what woke the system from the
last sleep transition.

/WAKETIMERS Enumerates active wake timers.

/REQUESTS Enumerates application and driver Power Requests.

/REQUESTSOVERRIDE Sets a Power Request override for a particular Process,
Service, or Driver.

/ENERGY Analyzes the system for common energy-efficiency and
battery life problems.

/BATTERYREPORT Generates a report of battery usage.

/SLEEPSTUDY Generates a diagnostic system power transition report.

/SRUMUTIL Dumps Energy Estimation data from System Resource Usage
Monitor (SRUM).

/SYSTEMSLEEPDIAGNOSTICS
Generates a diagnostic report of system sleep transitions.

/SYSTEMPOWERREPORT Generates a diagnostic system power transition report.

/POWERTHROTTLING Control power throttling for an application.