While working with Windows 11/10, one may realize that our system responds a little late occasionally, especially when we are using a battery-operated system like a laptop. There are times when a particular task, like a game or editing software, ends up fetching all your system’s resources, including power supply, memory, disk space, etc. In this article, we will learn how to find these power hogs in your Windows 11/10 system using Task Manager.
How to find which Apps are draining Battery in Windows 11/10
There are ways in which you can fix common resource usage problems. But you may also want to find such resource-hogging processes on your system that consumes high Power. To track power usage of apps and know which of the processes are fetching more power and becoming a power hogger of your system, follow the steps below:
Find Power Hogs and apps using High Battery with Task Manager
Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc, the Task Manager will open up.
Enlarge the Task Manager window by clicking on More details.
In the normal-sized window, scroll horizontally or maximize the window.
Look for two columns namely Power usage and Power usage trend.
If these columns are not available then right-click on any of the columns and select the options of Power usage and Power usage trend.
Now you can check which of the tasks is sucking more power and choose whether you want to end the task or not.
Read:
- How to find out Battery Usage of each app in Windows
- Find what is draining the Battery with Windows Sleep Study Tool
Before you end the task, understand the difference between the two columns.
- The Power Usage column tells about the energy currently being used by a process.
- The Power usage trend column tells about the power usage of any process over the period of the last two minutes.
Once you select a process from the list to terminate, select the task, and then click on End Task.
If you accidentally terminate an important system background process and your system starts to behave abnormally, save all your incomplete tasks and restart the system. It will then start working fine as it was before.
Keep in mind that this method of checking power hoggers is especially for those who are nowhere near a charging station and there is a task that needs all the juice from the battery. After all, we all love to see our system work just fine when we are in a hurry and especially in a hurry.
Read:
- Fix power problems using the Power Troubleshooter.
- How to fix Battery drain issues in Windows.
