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Re: Battery save app

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On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:49:34 -0600, sticks wrote:

> I got a new laptop for the wife, my first time with Win 11, though I've 
> been reading here since I knew this day was inevitable.  No problems 
> getting it all set up, expect for the battery issue.
> 
> I recall a while back talk on one of the windows groups where the 
> battery would only charge to 80% to save battery life on newer 
> computers.  I guess I thought Win 11 had the ability to do this.  From 
> what I gather, it only has the option to help out by limiting what you 
> can do if the level goes below 20%.  That's not what I was interested 
> in.  Am I correct that Win 11 has no built in way to manage the top 
> charging level on it's own?
> 
> So then I started looking for manufacturer options.  This is an HP 
> laptop, 15-fd0107dx prodID A9PE7UA#ABA, and it appears their support for 
> this is not the best.  I read more stuff on windows 10 and little on 
> windows 11.  There are some pages showing what they call HP Power 
> Manager, but going to their site and allowing them to scan and give 
> updates and software options it doesn't come up for this laptop.
> 
> I have downloaded a file, sp78633.exe, that looks like it might be the 
> HP Power Manager software.  I did update the bios from the website and 
> on the bios configuration tab it had something called Adaptive Battery 
> Optimizer (enabled), but can't see where it does anything.  I do have 
> the full setup macrium image all made in case I screw something up.
> 
> I guess my second question is does anyone have this Power Manager stuff 
> from HP on a Windows 11 system and know where to get it, or in the 
> alternative I guess I could try running the sp78633.exe file and see 
> what happens?
> 
> Any suggestions welcomed!


My HP laptop (series G5) has the HP Battery Health Manager.
It is a BIOS-level option. The settings are in the BIOS.
I updated it a few years ago by flashing a new BIOS.

My guess is the file sp78633.exe may be for flashing the BIOS on 
certain HP models only.  I don't know what it might do to your 
wife's HP laptop.

See this HP support page.  Note the words "BIOS-level" and 
"found in most HP business notebooks."

<https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/ish_4449597-3519507-16>

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    HP Business Notebook PCs - HP Battery Health Manager
 
    HP Battery Health Manager is a BIOS-level setting found in most
    HP business notebooks. It is designed to optimize battery health
    by minimizing the notebook battery exposure to key factors, such
    as high state-of-charge, which can accelerate the natural
    degradation and chemical aging of the battery over time.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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Kind regards
Ralph Fox
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A little pot's soon hot.

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