In this simple instruction details about determining the capacity of the laptop battery, the degree of wear of the battery and receiving additional information that may be useful. It can also be useful: what to do if the laptop is not charging, how to find out the real butter battery capacity.
Getting information about battery capacity built-in Windows 10
Not everyone knows, but in Windows 10 you can get information about the passport and current battery capacity when you are fully charged using only the built-in OS funds.
- Run the command prompt, for this you can use the search in the taskbar.
- Enter the PowerCFG / BatteryReport command
- As a result of its execution, you will receive a message about where the battery information has been saved.
- Go to the specified folder and open the battery-report.html file (it opens in your default browser).
As a result, you will receive information about the battery of your laptop in a convenient form.
Despite the fact that the file in English, most of the data are fairly easily readable. Among important information:
- In the Installed Batteries section - information about the installed batteries and capacity information: in the Design Capacity field, you will see a passport container in the Full Charge Capacity field - the current battery capacity with full charge. Here is the Cycle Count field - the number of cycles of using the battery.
- Sections Below are clearly shown exactly exactly how the battery was used in recent days and how its container changes over time.
- The Battery Life Estimates section displays information about the expected laptop operation time from the battery at full charge. By the way, it may be interesting: how to enable the display of battery life in Windows 10.
In some cases, all or part of the fields in the received battery information may be empty. This may be associated with the missing original chipset drivers and power management from the laptop manufacturer or with the lack of collected statistics (for example, if you work with a laptop only from the network).
Using third-party programs to learn the capacity of the laptop battery capacity
There are many paid and free programs that allow you to find out the characteristics of a computer or laptop, some of them are displayed, including the battery capacity, and the degree of its wear. One of these programs is a popular AIDA64. The program is paid, but the information you are interested in are available in the free trial. Download Aida64 from the official site https://www.aida64.com/downloads
After starting the program, go to the computer section - power supply. There you will see the necessary information in the "Battery Properties" section.
The data includes:
- The passport capacity of the battery.
- Current container with complete charge.
- Current capacity (at the current charge level).
- Battery wear.
As well as some additional information that may be useful in various scenarios, for example, when the laptop is quickly discharged.