Friday, July 7, 2023 – Protecting your computer from lightning strikes – Installing an SSD as a second drive

As with any battery, the battery in your laptop won’t last forever. There will for sure come a time when you’ll need to replace it if you keeping using your laptop long enough.

If you’ve had your laptop for a while you might be wondering how well its battery is faring at this point in time.

Luckily, both MacBooks and Windows laptops come with tools that allow you to view the current state of the machine’s battery ‘health’ at any time.

Performing a quick health checkup on a MacBook battery couldn’t be simpler. Just follow the steps below:

1 – Click the Apple icon in the top-left corner of the screen.

2 – Click System Preferences.

3 – Click Battery, then click Battery again.

4 – In the lower-right corner, click Battery Health.

The process of viewing a Battery Life Report on a Windows laptop is a little more complicated than it is on a MacBook, but it’s still fairly easy. Just follow these steps:

1 – Click the Start button.

Type the letters cmd and then select Command Prompt from the list of search results.

2 – Type (or copy and paste) the following after the command prompt, and then press the Enter key:

powercfg /batteryreport

You should now see a message telling you which folder Windows saved the Battery Life Report in.

3 – Press the Windows+E key combination to open a ‘File Explorer’ window.

4 – Follow the path listed in step 2 above to navigate to the folder containing the newly-created Battery Life Report.

5 – Double-click on the battery-report.html file to open it in your laptop’s default web browser.