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Re: Battery save app

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On 1/10/2025 9:06 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
> sticks wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Yes, Win11 itself doesn't allow charging to less than 100%, my two 
> laptops have a Lenovo utility to limit charging, and a previous Huawei 
> did too, not sure about HP.

Thanks, that's what I figured.
I suppose Microsoft would be opening a huge can of worms with all the 
possible hardware scenarios involved to try and do this themselves and 
are just opting for the manufacturers implementing it.  I was kind of 
surprised with this new purchase it isn't more straight forward, but I 
guess I'll keep looking into it.


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Battery save app sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-10 08:49 -0600
  Re: Battery save app Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-01-10 15:06 +0000
    Re: Battery save app sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-10 09:48 -0600
      Re: Battery save app "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-01-10 10:56 -0500
        Re: Battery save app sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> - 2025-01-10 14:18 -0600
          Re: Battery save app Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-10 20:34 +0000
            Re: Battery save app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-10 23:06 +0100
              Re: Battery save app Joerg Walther <joerg.walther@magenta.de> - 2025-01-11 13:35 +0100
                Re: Battery save app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-11 15:40 +0100
          Re: Battery save app Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-01-26 19:52 +1100
      Re: Battery save app Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-10 12:21 -0500
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          Re: Battery save app Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-01-26 20:02 +1100
            Re: Battery save app Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-01-26 10:01 +0000
            Re: Battery save app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-26 13:58 +0100
  Re: Battery save app Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-10 16:04 +0000
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  Re: Battery save app Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2025-01-11 09:03 +1300
    Re: Battery save app Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-10 15:20 -0500
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      Re: Battery save app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-10 22:59 +0100
        Re: Battery save app Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-10 18:46 -0500
        Re: Battery save app "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-11 15:50 +0100
  Re: Battery save app Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2025-01-10 22:35 -0700
    Re: Battery save app dbnnet <dbnnet@invalid.com> - 2025-01-11 14:25 +0200
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        Re: Battery save app Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-28 06:04 -0500
          Re: Battery save app Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-01-29 20:54 +1100
            Re: Battery save app Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-29 05:54 -0500

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