To begin, you’ll need to open an Administrator Command Prompt, which you can do by right-clicking on the Start button and selecting the Command Prompt (Admin) command. Launching the PowerCfg command and running the Battery Report is easy once you know how. SEE: How’s your battery holding up? The Windows 10 Battery Report will tell you Getting started What I discovered might be helpful to other laptop users. So I ran the report to see what it could tell me. However, that got me thinking about an article I had written a while back about running the PowerCfg command’s Battery Report in Windows 10. Unfortunately, the procedure didn’t revive my battery it was still dead. After all, I didn’t have anything to lose but a little bit of time. Over the weekend, I decided to give this procedure a shot.
I expressed some doubt, but he was steadfast in his belief that the procedure reset his battery. He replaced the battery, rebooted the system, which reinstalled the drivers, and then discovered that his battery was once again accepting a charge. He went into a detailed explanation of how he solved the problem by removing the battery, booting the laptop on AC power, and going to Device Manager and uninstalling the Microsoft AC Adapter and the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery drivers. He said that he too had seen the 0% Not Charging notification on his system but that in his case, the battery was not actually dead. As we were conversing, I noticed that he had an HP 2000 laptop and told him about my dead battery experience. Recently, I was talking to a fellow I met at a conference.
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Windows 11 update brings Bing Chat into the taskbar Microsoft PowerToys 0.69.0: A breakdown of the new Registry Preview app A wild-goose chase Must-read Windows coverage Figure B The HP Battery Check utility confirmed that the battery was dead. Since the HP 2000 is my backup laptop, I’ve just been using it on AC power. I then ran the HP Battery Check utility and confirmed that the battery was dead, as shown in Figure B. Figure A The battery charge notification was showing 0%. Accessing the battery charge notification in Windows 10 told me it was at 0% and no longer charging ( Figure A). The amount of battery charge slowly faded to the point that it wasn’t holding a charge anymore. This past fall, I noticed that the battery charge in my HP 2000 laptop had begun diminishing. When a laptop battery goes south, the Battery Report is your ticket to figuring out when things went wrong.
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