Create a Power Efficiency Report To Determine Better Battery Life

Hey folks..... I am considering creating a new tweaks guide for Windows 7 and thought I would throw a bit of a tool in to raise a bit of interest.

Windows enables us to conduct energy efficiency testing of our systems and then see the subsequent report to determine what we can improve upon...

Simply.....

1. Access your command prompt through 'Accessories' or by typing 'cmd' in the Run command menu;

2. Type 'powercfg/energy at the prompt and let the system do the test;

3. Go to C: and click on the energy report. It will display errors, warnings and information that can assist in improving your power efficiency.

I would love to here some of the things learned and improvements made...as well as the way in which the improvements were done.

For example...I had an error as such:

CPU Utilization rocessor utilization is high
The average processor utilization during the trace was high. The system will consume less power when the average processor utilization is very low. Review processor utilization for individual processes to determine which applications and services contribute the most to total processor utilization.
Average Utilization (%) 10.71

Can anyone assist with the meaning and solution for this?

 

A GUI version of this tool can also be accessed in the control panel.

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Troubleshooting >> Select "Improve Power Usage"

It can automatically adjust settings to "fix" problems it finds. Though, note that it will want to fix things that aren't necessarily broke. For example, it will enable options to turn off inactive hard drives and USB sleep. If those were disabled for a reason, don't let Windows change it.

Try running the GUI tool and see what fix it applies.