Windows11

Windows Laptop Battery and Power Savings Plans

Windows provides several battery status levels to allow appropriate actions. Tune these as appropriate to your requirements.

Settings -> System -> Power and Sleep:

  • On Battery savings:
    • Turn off display : 10 minutes
    • Put computer to sleep : 20 minutes

Settings -> System -> Battery:

  • Turn battery saver on automatically at : 20%
  • [x] Limit notifications and background activity
  • [x] Lower screen brightness while in battery saver

Control Panel -> Power Options -> Advanced settings:

  • Turn off hard disks : 3 minutes
  • Low battery:
    • Default level = 12%
    • Notification: “Your battery is running low. You might want to plug in your PC”
    • Action: *Do nothing / Sleep / Hibernate / Shut down
  • Reserve battery:
    • Default level = 10%
    • Prepares computer to enter sleep mode; may prompt user to save and close files.
  • Critical battery:
    • Default level = 7%
    • Action : Sleep / *Hibernate / Shut down
      (occurs instantly, does not wait for user)