- Windows 11 has a new power -saving feature in testing
- It kicks in when you leave your laptop for a period of time
- While you are gone, power control settings ensure a minimal amount of battery used – and when you return, things immediately return to normal
Windows 11 is set to receive fresh capacities to maintain battery life of your laptop with the introduction of a new feature in the test recently.
Windows latest picked up on this one, with the Power Management feature, which was revealed in a preview-building from a few weeks back (which the site missed at the time, and so did I).
Microsoft rather clumsily calls this functionality ‘user interaction conscious CPU Power Management’, but to be fair, it describes how it works.
The idea is that when you leave your laptop to go and do something else and maybe be distracted, Windows 11 will note that you have gone and no longer interact with the device.
In these cases, after a specific period, windows will use the relationship between power consumption to expand the battery life, because even if you are not using the laptop, you will not be concerned about what it can do for performance (obviously).
When you return to your device and start using it again, Microsoft promises that “full performance [is] Immediately restored ”, as you hope.
Analysis: Promises and Warnings
There is no disadvantage here, at least if what Microsoft maintains here is true – that as soon as you get back to using your device is full performance instantly Back at hand. If there is a bit of delay in terms of responsiveness that returns, it can be annoying, depending on how much – but we take Microsoft’s words to face value that this will not be a problem.
However, the company mentions a warning which is that the power savings Windows 11 users benefit from will vary. They will depend on the power plan selected in us and whether your laptop is connected and also processor power control settings as defined by the manufacturer.
In the latter case, this means that there may be factors that the portable manufacturer has implemented that affect how much battery life the function can preserve.
If you do not want this functionality, there will seem to be a way to turn it off, presumably under Windows 11’s Power Management settings. I do not see why you do not want extra battery savings to happen this way, but giving the feature works as smoothly as Microsoft suggests.
With this new Power-Management Trickery in Testing now, it seems there is a good chance that it will come with Windows 11 25H2 later in the year. This is an area that Microsoft has worked on quite a lot recently, including bringing the renewed energy saving with Windows 11 24h2.
