Nov 05 2021 10:20 PM
Hi, I have got a Dell XPS laptop (16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz) and to my knowledge this has one of the better battery life (approx. 7-8 hours post charging) and when you close the laptop and open it on the next day, it just consumes approx. 2% battery only. This is all good with Windows 10. But when I received my Windows 11 update things went for a toss. Interface looks awesome, navigating through them is also awesome. But then battery - no it was worrisome !
I had my laptop full charged and as usual I left it as it is. Then to my surprise it drained out completely and I had to recharge it full again. When I looked over the Battery Usage (thanks to Microsoft for the detailed usage pattern) it started to drain after a certain time. None of the tasks were running, I had shut down my Oracle, SQL Services, closed my Edge, Chrome browsers, etc., services, still no luck.
I know this is a issue reported by many users across the globe, and the steps to minimize the battery drain (provided in Bing/ Google search) aren't the effective ones. They are just to optimize your battery consumption and not to avoid your battery drain issue. Many others have written go back to Windows 10, but then why take all the effort to upgrade to Windows 11 and get awestruck with its interface.
I know its all early days of roll-out and I hope Microsoft definitely has a way to fix this issue. Here is the look of my battery usage post charging and leaving it idle overnight.
If anyone has the same issue and would like to take this to Microsoft, please have a look at my battery usage levels as well.
Thanks
Mar 29 2022 08:45 PM
Mar 30 2022 01:44 AM - edited Mar 30 2022 01:57 AM
Hello
I ask everyone to enable optional diagnostic data ( In the privacy settings to automatically forward error information to Microsoft)
in this way, it can help you fix this problem.
I do not buy computers from this manufacturer - so the description of the configuration on this device I can not share.
I will add that the participants of the Insider program habit perform - a clean installation of Windows, which removes the programs of the computer manufacturer - I also do so (the manufacturer's programs are removed) maybe it will be a small tip.
Best regards
Jun 04 2022 11:28 PM
Hi,
I am having same issues with my HP Probook, only after upgrading from win 10 to win 11, i am facing the same problem. When i close (shutdown/hibernate) my laptop on at any battery percentage (say 90%, 60% or even 100%) and then after next day or two, when i tried to switched on my laptop again it always shows battery low (drained to 40%, 30% and even lower than that). It only happened after upgrading from windows 10 to 11, my laptop was working 3 to 4 hours continuously in windows 10. In win 11 it is something suddenly shutting down due to battery drain problem.
Have Microsoft fixed it ir we need to downgrade our pc to windows 10, or some other operating system better than this worst ever win 11.
Jun 05 2022 07:37 AM
Jun 16 2022 09:32 AM - edited Jun 16 2022 10:45 AM
It's June 2022. I upgraded in November last year but returned to windows 10 because of the same issue. I just made the mistake of upgrading thinking the problem was fixed but it is still there. Plus many of the software I use on a regular basis run super slow. Suggestion: STAY WITH WINDOWS 10. Windows 11 is not such a great OS plus there are a lot of bugs they still need to fix.
Sep 16 2022 04:02 AM - edited Sep 16 2022 04:03 AM
It's September 2022, and after 9 months of Windows 11 I have gone back to Windows 10. I have tried countless things to reduce the power usage on Windows 11, but nothing works. It simply uses much more power than Windows 10. The battery life on my Intel 8th gen CPU laptop on Windows 11 is 4 hours instead of 7 hours with Windows 10. That's 40% less, which is completely unacceptable.
Additionally, since I have BatteryBar installed, I can follow the power usage in every moment. I have noticed Windows 11 ramps up the power usage much more on every task, but the performance is even lower than on Windows 10. And then it takes 5-10 seconds to lower the power usage, whereas Windows 10 lowers the power usage instantly after the action has been performed.
There is something VERY wrong with how Windows 11 handles the CPU.
Oct 07 2022 05:14 AM
Hi @splus9 I don't think going back to Windows 10 is an option. I am looking for Microsoft to fix this issue, because if this is not done then any powerful laptop you buy paying a huge amount will have the same problem :)
Thanks
Aravind S
Nov 06 2022 07:01 PM
November 2022 and still having the same battery drain issue with my Huawei Matebook D14 after upgrading to Win 11. Usually I got around 5 hours of battery on Win 10, now after upgrading to Win 11 just 2 hours.
Nov 08 2022 09:22 PM