I've been running Win10 on my (old) laptop for about 6 months now. In the last few months I've noticed some problems with power management. 90%+ of the time the laptop is on my desk, plugged in. (Which I know is not ideal for battery life.) But when it's unplugged, sometimes it has issues.
* I'll close my laptop and put it in my backpack. When I get the laptop out hours later, sometimes it's warm -- indicating it was running with the top closed. On one occasion I got a "thermal overload" message. Obviously when it does this, the battery is much lower when I start using it.
* Recently I've had several cases where it was closed, but the laptop drained power until it died. Not hibernated, but ran to zero power and shut down.
I never had this problem in W7. Is this a W10 issue? Do I need to change some setting? Does W10 not handle aging batteries well? According to a battery test, my battery has lost about 10% of its full capacity in the last few months.
* I'll close my laptop and put it in my backpack. When I get the laptop out hours later, sometimes it's warm -- indicating it was running with the top closed. On one occasion I got a "thermal overload" message. Obviously when it does this, the battery is much lower when I start using it.
* Recently I've had several cases where it was closed, but the laptop drained power until it died. Not hibernated, but ran to zero power and shut down.
I never had this problem in W7. Is this a W10 issue? Do I need to change some setting? Does W10 not handle aging batteries well? According to a battery test, my battery has lost about 10% of its full capacity in the last few months.