How to check your Laptop Battery Health/Remaining Capacity in windows 10 and 11

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Anonymous
2025-03-31T13:14:52+00:00

Here is a process to check your laptop battery capacity and current estimated capacity and also monitor how your battery is running.

Click on the start button on the keyboard or locate it on the screen,

Type CMD and right click the Command Prompt (CMD) app,

Select run as administrator,

Click YES when the UAC pop up appears.

When the CMD program opens, type "powercfg /batteryreport" (without quotes) and press enter,

Locate the report file "battery_report.html" in any of the following locations:

C:\Users"user_name

C:\Windows\System32

Open the report file with your favorite browser and run through to check various informations about your laptop battery.

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-07T07:13:42+00:00

    Thanks really. I was trying to find my battery life status for months and then my friends recommended me this post. So I went on it and I realised that it was pretty simple. Thanks @DoxTechWW.

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    Anonymous
    2025-04-19T22:40:43+00:00

    Thanks really. I was trying to find my battery life status for months and then my friends recommended me this post. So I went on it and I realised that it was pretty simple. Thanks @DoxTechWW.

    Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad to have helped out.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-06-30T20:36:01+00:00

    thank you this was helpful

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