battery drain

  1. Managing Background Apps on Windows: Control Privacy and Performance

    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...
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    Windows 10 WEIRD battery drains when shut down

    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...
  3. Windows 10 Pc themes goes black and battery drain in few minutes

    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.
  4. Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14393 for PC and Mobile

    Hello my Windows Insiders! I hope everyone had an awesome weekend. Many of you know that helping people learn tech is a deep passion of mine so I spent some time working on some UWP app ideas that the we can do with you all, both in-person and online. We are always looking to learn new things...
  5. Latest Microsoft Health App Update for Android Reportedly Causing Battery Drain

    The recent update for the Microsoft Health app may be causing battery drain on Android smartphones. read more Continue reading...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Laptop randomly waking up

    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...
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    Windows 7 Consider replacing your battery Problem

    :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...
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    Windows 7 Sleep and hibernate do not work as expected on Windows 7 home premium laptop

    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...
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    Windows 7 Problems with a Green Screen?

    I have a HP MINI netbook, and earlier (admittedly while watching TV, and paying very little attention) tried putting headphones in and managed to miss and put them in the USB port. The screen flickered and is now a mint green, and it won't switch off fully, and the screen stays green whenever i...