If you’re interested in getting more technical info about your battery usage and estimated capacity, you can use the method that’s built into Windows 10 to generate a battery report.
- Right-click the Start button.
- Select Windows PowerShell (Admin)
- When the blue PowerShell window appears, type or paste powercfg /batteryreport /output "C:\battery-report.html" into it.
- Press Enter.
- PowerShell will generate a battery report and save it to your computer.
- To access it, type This PC into the Windows search bar.
- Left-click the This PC application that appears.
- Under the "Devices and drives" header, click on the C drive.
- Find the battery-report.html file and click on it.
- OR
Select Search on the taskbar, type Command prompt, press and hold (or right-click) Command prompt, and then select Run as administrator > Yes.
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.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.
You can get a lot of detailed info about your battery usage and capacity. Some particular sections you might want to look at to get started include the following: Installed battery, Recent usage, and Battery usage.