battery drain

Microsoft quietly confirmed what users have been asking for: Modern Standby in Windows 11 will stop allowing most background activity to forcibly wake a sleeping PC and draining its battery, because beginning with Windows 11, version 24H2 the OS now limits wake sources when excessive drain is...

Mozilla’s latest stable release shipped an ambitious privacy-first AI feature — on-device tab grouping — but early adopters say the convenience comes with an unwelcome cost: runaway CPU use, fan noise, and faster battery drain on laptops. What began as small community reports has grown into a...

Modern laptops have reached a stage where raw performance and sleek aesthetics often dominate the marketing narrative, but there’s a curious omission at the heart of the user experience: powering the device down completely. Anyone who’s spent time with a review unit or simply tried to perform a...

Windows 11 is renowned for its power, versatility, and customization options, but many users may not realize just how many background processes are constantly running, silently impacting system resources—especially battery life. Among these, the Windows Search Indexer stands out as a prime...

The Classic Outlook Conundrum: Navigating CPU Spikes and Workarounds Microsoft Outlook, a cornerstone of productivity for millions, has lately been the epicenter of a vexing technical dilemma. Users of the classic Outlook version have experienced troubling CPU spikes—sometimes soaring by as much...

Microsoft's Classic Outlook client has recently been causing significant headaches for users, with reports surfacing since late 2024 about mysterious spikes in CPU usage that degrade system performance markedly. The issue, now acknowledged by Microsoft, sees the application consuming between 30...

The recent CPU spike issue in Classic Outlook on Windows has become a significant pain point for users and IT professionals alike, casting renewed light on Microsoft’s ongoing push for adoption of the New Outlook client. This problem, officially acknowledged by Microsoft in 2025, causes Classic...

For many Android users, particularly those sticking with budget-friendly models, wringing every extra minute of battery life out of a device is not just a technical exercise but a way of life. With mobile phones playing a central role in modern living, from handling work to managing social...

Most Windows 10 users have never explored the powerful diagnostics that lie just beneath the surface of their operating system, and one of the most undersung among them is the ability to generate a rich, detailed energy report. This report, when used properly, isn't just another technical...

VSCode Battery Drain Fixes & TECNO Megabook S14 Unveiled In the fast-evolving world of Windows computing, battery performance remains a hot topic for everyday users and developers alike. On one hand, many have experienced the frustration of Visual Studio Code (VSCode) draining precious battery...

Imagine this: You've just closed an app on Windows, but in the background, it's still buzzing away—updating itself, pulling notifications, syncing content, and possibly sipping away at your battery. These are the background apps, the quiet performers of your Windows experience, and while they...

Sixteen Android apps downloaded by a combined total of over 20 million users have been removed from the Google Play store after it was discovered they contained malware which uses up data and drains batteries. https://www.zdnet.com/ Sent from my A063 using Windows Forums mobile app

hi, this is a very weird situation that i am encountering. I notice that whenever I shut down the laptop, my battery drains 40-50% a night. Now, here's the weird catch, I have experimented for a few days and this is my findings: Whenever I shut down my laptop and leave the lid open, my battery...

So basically the numpties running the O2 network in my town sent out a message about 3 years ago saying they were going to improve the signal and as a result of this work the signal might be affected. I went from 4 bars to 0 and it never went back up. I renewed my contract with them back in...

when I boot my laptop it always goes black or no theme so I have to change it whenever I boot it up and battery also drains in like 1 hour. I want to know the cause of it pls help.

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The recent update for the Microsoft Health app may be causing battery drain on Android smartphones. read more Continue reading...

I have recently (about 4 weeks ago) purchased an Asus R510J, a laptop with pre-installed Windows 8.1. It was running rather smoothly apart from some painful differences I notice coming from Windows 7. The one issue I started to notice however, was that when waking it up in the morning it would...

:confused: I am sorry if this was posted somewhere,but I am not in the mood,because of this problem on my laptop.This is like a crash and a bit of a bug,and it annoys me.The laptop I have is Satellite L755 and owned it for 10 months which is near a year.As of right now, my laptop's battery...

Hello! I had a terrible time trying to get my ASUS K52 laptop to sleep and hibernate (win 7 home premium). I scoured the net looking at all kinds of things like using the commands: powercfg -a powercfg -devicequery wake_armed sfc -scannow I tried to boot into safe mode and never did figure...