How to Check your Laptop's Battery Health in Windows 10?

Knowing how to check battery health in Windows 10 is crucial to monitor your laptop’s performance over time. Whether you're looking to generate a Windows 10 battery report or simply need to understand your laptop battery health, Windows provides built-in tools to assess your battery's condition. By running a simple command, you can view detailed information about your battery performance and ensure your device is running optimally.

How to check Laptop's Battery Health?

Checking your laptop's battery health on a Windows machine is much simpler, you can generate your battery report by using the command-line tool. You have to just follow the below-mentioned steps.

Step 1: Open a Windows PowerShell (Admin) by Right-clicking on the Start icon and selecting the “Windows PowerShell (Admin)” option.

Step 2: Type the given command in the PowerShell and press Enter to run the command.

Command to be run : powercfg /batteryreport /output "C:\battery_report.html"

This will generate an HTML file in a specified location with the given name in double quotes. (Here we have created a battery report in C drive with the name "battery_report.html".)

Step 3: As you run the command, it gives an output showing the path where the battery report is saved. In our case, it is saved in a CD drive. Now we can terminate the PowerShell.

Step 4: Open a battery report. To open the report go to the path specified in PowerShell. In our case, it is in C Drive as an HTML file. Double-click to open it.

After opening the report, You will see all the information about your battery health and various factors about the battery like battery type, serial number, manufacturer, capacity of the battery, etc.

As you scroll down, you will see the stats of battery usage in the recent 3 days, along with the graphical representation of usage, all details of power usage like when used with AC supply & when on battery. It also tells battery backup duration when a laptop was new and now how much it lasts.  

Here in the battery estimation (refer below figure) section, they have given a long battery lasting at design capacity, and now it is how much, from the user can understand how much loss in their battery health is happening since the OS installation.

There is a lot much information in the report from which you can understand properly how your laptop's battery is working.

Conclusion

Regularly checking your laptop’s battery health in Windows 10 helps you track its performance and plan for any necessary replacements. By generating a battery health report in Windows 10, you can gain insights into the capacity, efficiency, and overall lifespan of your battery. Keeping an eye on your battery performance in Windows 10 will help ensure a smooth user experience and avoid unexpected power issues.