Microsoft has disabled the ability to see how much battery life is left on a Windows 10 laptop since the Spring Creators Update. There is a way to re-enable the Remaining Battery Time on your Windows 10 PC with a few simple registry edits.
How to Enable Remaining Time Battery Life indicator in Windows 10
This is what you must do.
- Type Registry Editor into the search bar and choose Run as administrator.
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPower
From here, you’ll need to make a few changes to your Windows 10 PC’s Registry. Do not continue reading if you are unsure about making these changes. These registry edits will allow you to charge your Windows 10 PC with battery percentage, battery life remaining, and time remaining, but tampering with the registry can cause serious problems for your computer if you’re not careful.
The steps to follow in Registry Editor are as follows:
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPower
- Delete EnergyEstimationEnabled & UserBatteryDischargeEstimator from the right pane
- Right-click and Add a New DWORD (32-bit), and name it EnergyEstimationDisabled
To make the changes take effect, restart your computer.
When your mouse hovers over your battery icon, you should see the estimated amount of time your Windows 10 PC’s battery life is left, as well as a battery percentage indicator.
While the time estimate is not exact and may vary depending on your Windows 10 PC usage, having a time estimate of remaining battery life is more useful than a percentage estimate. Users can see how many hours are left on one of their devices, the Surface Headphones, thanks to Microsoft. However, Microsoft’s decision to remove the same feature from all of their other Surface products, including the Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2, is a bit ridiculous.
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