Guide: All About Battery Life

[unruledboy]

fully charged, standby 7 hours, occasionally use, 94% battery remaining, wow...

 

[uktivo]

In the right side charm, search for Indexing options. There remove everything but the libraries.

I can't see any libraries within indexing options. Is that correct?
I have about 11k indexed files..
Any pointers would be welcome

Thanks.

 

[iDatus]

Me neither. Either MS have fixed this in a patch or we doing something wrong.

Included a picture. PS this is from a AUG 28 UK SP3 Batch release.

 

[ctitanic]

brand new machine, battery charged to 98%, within 20 mins, 92% remaining, all settings default (brightness is 50%?), just web browsing......why?

detail reports attached

 

[ctitanic]

Me neither. Either MS have fixed this in a patch or we doing something wrong.
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Included a picture. PS this is from a AUG 28 UK SP3 Batch release.

Could you expand the users folder and post a screenshot here?

 

[iDatus]

 

[ctitanic]

 

[iDatus]

You can see the difference from your first picture.
For those reading looking at the above picture kindly done by ctitanic make sure you click the users folder on the bottom pain 1st!
This opens the top pain folders as shown.

 

[mtalinm]

btw thanks very much for your tip on configuring the Indexer. I took the steps of checking only essential directories and also un-checking files types I do not care about.

 

[ctitanic]

btw thanks very much for your tip on configuring the Indexer. I took the steps of checking only essential directories and also un-checking files types I do not care about.

I'm glad to help.

 

[everalm]

Curious inconsistencies on my i5 8Gb 256Gb power/battery

Installed BatteryBar as I have had good results from it previously I have also regularly run the 2 powercfg commands..... Alas I only got to see a battery life of just over 6 hours from these tools.

As a test I charged the machine fully (99.4%) then just started using it until it would get to about 5% and see how long it would run. Started in the late afternoon, intermittent usage, some more in the evening, that night, this morning etc until hit the circa 5% mark.

Ran the two powercfg commands, watched the battery bar...... wholly bizarre results

According to the batch file, I should get 6:05, full run time showed on BB at 6:04........ ACTUAL USAGE on BB, elapsed time since 99.4%......8 hrs 38 mins with 6.1% remaining and 21 minutes remaining

Not sure of any relevance but the powercfg report shows my battery as having 42,157 mWh but a full charge capacity as greater at 43,730 mWh

 

[ctitanic]

Excellent note

http://www.umpcportal.com/2013/02/connected-standby-battery-life-problem/