Subj : Windows 11 is getting useful changes to give your laptop more bat
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Tue Aug 20 2024 17:30:05

Windows 11 is getting useful changes to give your laptop more battery life 
for free

Date:
Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:23:40 +0000

Description:
Want better battery life for your laptop? Who doesnt, and luckily, Microsoft 
is changing Windows 11 to help with that.

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Windows 11 has received some useful tweaks to enable laptop owners to get 
more battery life, although these changes are still in testing right now. 

Microsoft implemented a couple of measures in the latest preview build 
(27686) in the Canary channel (the earliest testing channel). 

The major change is actually under the hood here, and in its blog post for 
build 27686, Microsoft says that it has enacted various optimizations to 
improve battery life without going into any details of exactly what has been 
done. 

More recently, as Toms Hardware spotted, Microsoft made another change with 
this build, as the company explains: Were beginning to roll out improvements 
to Settings > System > Power & battery including the ability to set your 
Power Mode for both when your PC is plugged in [and] when its on battery 
along with a few other UI improvements to the page. 

Actually, the ability to change your power preferences depending on whether 
your laptop is plugged in, or running on battery, has always been possible 
with Windows 11  you just had to dig deeper into the settings for the OS to 
change these options. 

Now, Microsoft is putting them in a more accessible place where Windows 11 
users will be able to see and easily switch these options, right there in the 
Power & battery panel. (Image credit: Shutterstock/Zamrznuti tonovi) 
Analysis: On the cutting-edge of testing 

Clearly, making the settings for changing your power mode in Windows 11 much 
easier to see and adjust is a good thing. We cant imagine this change wont 
make it through the various testing channels and on to the release version of 
Windows 11 before too long. 

The other move here in the optimizations to extend battery life is a bit 
different. Microsoft sounds less sure of the impact here, as when asking for 
feedback on the change, the software giant notes: Let us know what you think 
and if you are not seeing the battery life on your PC you are expecting, let 
us know via Feedback Hub. 

As we mentioned before, the Canary channel is the earliest testing avenue, 
and therefore the riskiest bet  this is the port of call for testers who want 
to be on the cutting-edge, where the dangers are higher than with other 
builds. 

In other words, this early work on implemented power-saving changes might go 
awry, and your battery life could end up diminished, rather than extended. At 
least until any kinks are ironed out, anyway  and we expect they will be, in 
time, if there are major wrinkles present. 

Microsoft is pretty vague about this change, but with any luck, itll help 
Windows 11 laptops eke out more battery life  and surfacing the ability to 
tweak power modes, making this more visible to everyday users, wont hurt 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/windows-11-is-getting-useful-chang
es-to-give-your-laptop-more-battery-life-for-free


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