How to Check Battery Health in Windows 10 (and others)

Photo by Panos Sakalakis on Unsplash

Battery life is one of the most important factors on a portable device such as a laptop, tablet, or cellphone, especially when yours has a few years under its belt.

Focusing here on laptops and on Windows Operating Systems, few people know that Microsoft included in Windows 7 and above a battery health report generating tool, where you can get a detailed status of your device’s battery health, comparison of design capacity x current capacity, amongst other relevant pieces of information.

It’s easy, it’s quick and you can definitely extract something out of it whether you are a tech-savvy person or not. It works on Windows 7, 8, and 10 (and its sub-versions), and all you need is to run one single line of command in the Command Prompt of your computer. Enough said, here’s how it’s done.

Generating the Report

1. Open the Command Prompt. This can be done in (at least) two ways, but there may be others:

• Press the Windows key and type “command”, it will be the first option available as in the image below:

finding command Prompt on Windows

• Press Windows + R, type “cmd” and hit the Enter…