{"id":445,"date":"2020-02-13T04:54:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T04:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/?p=445"},"modified":"2020-02-13T04:54:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T04:54:12","slug":"give-your-laptop-battery-a-checkup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/give-your-laptop-battery-a-checkup\/","title":{"rendered":"Give your laptop battery a checkup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may not give much thought to your laptop battery, until it fails.&nbsp; Did you know Windows 7 now has a built in tool to give your battery a checkup?&nbsp; This utility will give you information such as charge capacity (compare to its original state) and what programs are using your computer&#8217;s resources.&nbsp; Here are the simple steps to use this tool:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click your Windows Orb (start menu icon)<\/li><li>Type <strong>cmd <\/strong>in the search box<\/li><li>In the results, you should see the program for <strong>cmd <\/strong>(dos prompt).&nbsp; Right-click its icon and choose <strong>Run as administrator<\/strong><\/li><li>In the new command prompt window that appears, type <strong>powercfg -energy<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Hit Enter and it will begin to process.&nbsp; When complete, the utility will list the number of items it found.&nbsp; It will also display the path to view the complete report.&nbsp; It will likely be similar to &#8220;c:\\windows\\system32\\energy-report.html&#8221;.&nbsp; There you will be able to view all the dirty details of your battery and its usage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not give much thought to your laptop battery, until it fails.&nbsp; Did you know Windows 7 now has a built in tool to give your battery a checkup?&nbsp; This utility will give you information such as charge capacity (compare to its original state) and what programs are using your computer&#8217;s resources.&nbsp; Here are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawktech.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}