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    W550s Battery Life and Thinkvantage Win 10 Software

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by pkincy, Jan 16, 2017.

  1. pkincy

    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    My W550s was bought in the Win 7/Win 8 days as an early adopter. I have of course upgraded with Microsofts upgrade tool to Win 10. My battery life (outside 6 cell and internal 3 cell) was an easy 5-6 hours when new. Lately this has fallen to 1.5 hours. So I bought a new external 6 cell. No change. Still 1.5-2 hours. In looking to see about replacing the internal 3 cell, the maintenance manual states to use Lenovo Solution Center to see if the internal is defective prior to replacing it.

    So 2 problems. First is none of the Lenovo bloatware, some of which is very useful will load on an upgraded Win 10 machine. So I can't get Solution Center. I can't get the Power Manager, etc. I have had Lenovo Tech Support on my machine trying to load the above and they gave up saying it apparently isn't compatible with the Msft direct Win 10 upgrade process. Only when loaded by Lenovo on the factory installed Win 10 image.

    Second question. What else is going on to kill battery life? My power settings using Windows 10 power manager are on balanced and have mostly always been on balanced. There were times when the machine was new that I was using Hi Performance but even then I would exceed 4 hours of battery life.

    I appreciate your input.
     
    pkincy, Jan 16, 2017
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