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Windows 7: How to check your laptop battery health in
Windows 7
By: Arie Slob
Windows 7 includes a new command that shows you a lot of details on its power usage & settings and helps you
troubleshoot power issues (like Windows 7 waking up unexpectedly when you've put it in Sleep mode).
This command also shows you some detailed information about your laptop's battery, including its design capacity and the
last full charge. With this data you can calculate how much (percentage-wise) your battery has deteriorated over time.
Let's have a look:
Click Start button and type cmd in Search programs and files box 1.
Right click on cmd.exe listed at the top of the Start menu and click Run as administrator 2.
In the command prompt type cd %userprofile%/Desktop and press Enter 3.
Next type powercfg -energy in the command prompt and press Enter
powercfg will enable a trace for 60 seconds. If you want to use it for more information than just the battery details,
make sure no other processes are running during that time
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When finished, powercfg will generate a report (in html format) which shows errors, warnings etc. Since we directed the
command prompt to your desktop, the report will be placed on your desktop as energy-report.html. Just open the report
in your web browser & scroll down to the Battery Information section.
Above are two samples. On the left is a relatively new battery (a few months old). As you can see, the last full charge is
only some 5.5% below the design capacity.
On the right is an old battery (around 4 years old) which shows that the last full charge was nearly 40% below the design
capacity. From experience I know that this battery will only last a few months more. I've had a battery fail a few months
after it tested 45% below its design capacity. I recently did a 'stress test' on this battery (which will show you the minimum
time you can expect while running the laptop at 'full power'), and it only managed 36 minutes. Compare that with 125
minutes for the new battery.
For additional information on Lithium-ion batteries read How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries

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Jonathan Gan
cause fuck logic.
Design Capacity 33600
Last Full Charge 33705.
Reply Like Follow Post December 28, 2012 at 11:45am 2
Arran Davis
Seems legit
Reply Like December 28, 2012 at 10:26pm
Trevor Nicholson
Is this possible?
Battery:Battery Information
Battery ID 111005200 GatewayW35052LB.
Manufacturer Gateway
Chemistry Li
Long Term 1.
***** Design Capacity 57720 ********.
***** Last Full Charge 655499 ********.
Reply Like Follow Post January 1 at 8:09am
Emily Hodges DeFrancesco The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
3 errors
8 warnings
22 informational
See C:\Users\Fujitsu T\Desktop\energy-report.html for more details.
ummmm...
Reply Like Follow Post December 31, 2012 at 6:21pm
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Roderick Pieplenbosch
WoW! I'm shocked
Design Capacity 24420.
Last Full Charge 8420.
Reply Like Follow Post August 25, 2012 at 11:51pm 1
Miroslav Kaleja
Mwahahaha! Hahahaha! 1!
Reply Like Follow Post September 18, 2012 at 7:33pm 1
Miroslav Kaleja
I only got 5,4% battery loss after two years
Also: really helpfull article.
Reply Like September 18, 2012 at 7:34pm
Gabriel Da Silva Top Commenter Universidad Alejandro De Humboldt
(Caracas)
D Cap: 93.240.
L Full: 78.610.
Laptop has little more than 9 months...
Reply Like Follow Post September 26, 2012 at 9:07pm 1
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