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I've just got a Surface Book, and as I've read many different results as to the battery life of these, I'd like to monitor this.

So I'm looking for a program that runs on Windows 10, and does the following:

  • Monitors battery life
  • Gives an average battery life
  • Detailed graph of battery percentage/rundown that covers weeks or months (instead of only since last charge)
  • Monitors charging rate
  • Give an average charge time
  • Is able to work with two batteries of different capacities (as the Book has)

I prefer free software (who doesn't?) but would be interested in paid as well.

Full Windows programs and UWP apps welcome.

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Most of the information that you require can be achieved with simple powercfg /batteryreport command in command prompt in windows.

It generates a nice html detail report of (in current folder) :

  • Current FULL CHARGE CAPACITY
  • Recent usage Battery
  • Usage Graph with detailed tabled info as well
  • Usage history Battery Capacity History
  • Complete Tabled Battery Life estimate

I suggest you give it a try.

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    Aah what a lovely answer!! would have voted 10 times if allowed. This is useful
    – xavier_fakerat
    Commented Jun 9, 2017 at 12:16
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The built-in Windows Task Manager can display such information, and can even display the battery usage of each application. If that is not enough, you can try BatteryMon too.

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  • A URL for "BatteryMon" would have bee helpful
    – Mawg
    Commented May 16, 2019 at 7:27

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