Had a remote user complain that his laptop’s battery was only lasting “about 5 minutes” before it would either shutdown or he’d have to plug it in. The laptop was 3 years old, but the battery had already been replaced ~6 months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s at this point that I’d like to push my own thinking. This user had received a new-to-him laptop as the first member of his team to be upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. If you’re familiar with Dell products, he upgraded from a 7480 to a 7490 laptop. If you’re also familiar with how office politics goes, as soon as one person on a team has something new\/shiny, the others want it too. Well this PoC upgrade process (he was part of a pilot group) went well. Fast forward 6 months and the rest of his team is receiving 7400 laptops and he feels like he’s missing out (total conjecture) as part of their windows 10 upgrade process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, you can run the battery report remotely assuming they’re somehow connected to the network – usually via a VPN or directly on the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
windows key + x, Windows Powershell (Admin)<\/em><\/code><\/li><\/ul><\/li>powercfg \/batteryreport \/output \"C:\\temp\\battery-report.html\"<\/code><\/li>- Open the battery-report.html in any browser<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Had a remote user complain that his laptop’s battery was only lasting “about 5 minutes” before it would either shutdown or he’d have to plug it in. The laptop was 3 years old, but the battery had already been replaced ~6 months ago. It’s at this point that I’d like to push my own thinking. … Continue reading Battery Health Windows<\/span>