If you'd like to bring back Windows 10's easy taskbar access to Power Mode profiles, consider downloading the third-party Battery Flyout app from the Microsoft Store. This tool costs a couple of ...

A dead laptop battery can kill your work right where it stands, shutting off your computer before you have a chance to save. Laptop batteries degrade over time, and the battery life you enjoyed when ...

Laptop manufacturers have gone to great lengths to ensure that thin-and-light notebooks offer significantly better battery life than the previous generation's. As such, most sub-2kg laptops, equipped ...

It's worth exploring options to preserve battery life before replacing your battery outright. Generating a battery health report on your Windows laptop is one way to see if you may need a battery ...

Discover how to generate a detailed Windows battery report that reveals the truth about its health and performance.

Windows warns you when your battery charge reaches low, reserve, and critical levels. You can, however, change the low, reserve, and critical battery level notifications in Windows 11/10/8/7, through ...

The complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, stores the system date and time as well as other settings on your Gateway laptop. The CMOS is powered by a small battery. If this battery runs low ...

There are 3 Battery levels – Low battery, Reserve battery, and Critical battery. The Windows OS reserves a certain percentage of battery capacity. When it reaches that level, it prompts the end-user ...

QUESTION: I have a relatively new Windows 10 laptop and I don’t understand why my battery life is so short. ANSWER: Battery life continues to be one of the most common complaints about all of our ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

It can be useful to configure Windows 8.1 to play a sound when your laptop is reaching a low or critical battery level so that you never run out of battery at important moments causing you to lose ...