Windows 10 anniversary eats the battery of your laptop? [solution]

The official Microsoft forums are on fire for users who report that Windows 10 eats the battery of their laptop after installing the Anniversary Update. Although Microsoft has not referred to it so far, it is possible that the Anniversary update has made some changes in the system that may be affecting autonomy. If that is your case, then we are going to give you some tips to solve this problem.

1 - Check the energy saving mode is activated

Windows 10 has a section dedicated to the battery in its options that can affect the autonomy of your laptop. Let's take a look at this section:

We open Settings

• We click System and we position ourselves in Battery We have to check that the battery saving mode is activated and at what moment it should be activated automatically, generally it is set when the battery drops to 20%.

2 - Control screen brightness in Windows 10

One of the elements that most affect the autonomy of any laptop or mobile phone is the brightness of the screen, the more brightness the less autonomy. It is possible to control the brightness of the screen of our computer in Windows 10.

• We open Settings We go to System Then we go to Screen

We can adjust the brightness of the screen with a slider bar, generally placing it in the middle would be enough.

3 - Check the Power Plan

This option is very relevant when we use a laptop, since it is a series of modifications that Windows makes to adjust to the energy demand that the equipment will have. In laptop we must make sure that the plan is 'Economizer'.

• We open the Control Panel We go to Energy Options With the screen that opens we must mark the Economizer plan

4 - Check which application is eating the battery

Windows 10 has a special section to see which applications are using the laptop battery the most and even which applications are using the Internet connection the most. To see it we have to do the following.

• We go back to Settings We click System and then Battery Now we click Battery Use

Here we are going to be able to check which applications are the ones that are most affecting autonomy, with this information we can act accordingly. In general, it will always be the Internet browser that uses the most battery for obvious reasons, at this point it is recommended to use Microsoft Edge instead of options such as Google Chrome.

I hope these tips have been useful to you, see you next time.