Shut It Down Correctly

My new (newish but used, provided by company) Windows 11 laptop keeps drains it's battery even when I shut it down from the Windows Shut Down menu (I turn the wall plug off so battery doesn't keep (trickle) charging over night).

I tried several power settings, but wasn't able to fix it. I wanted it to shut down properly and save battery. I didn't want it to startup quickly, I'm not in a hurry to start it up.

So I start searching for solutions.

That's when I found out Windows 11 hibernate mode and Fast Startup.

When hibernate mode is enabled, even when you shut down the computer from Shut Down menu, it goes to hibernate state, i.e. it will consume power to keep settings on the memory.

Fast Startup, which is another feature in Windows 11, will also make more battery to consume, even though you shut down your computer.

You need to turn off both these options to make it correctly shut down (which I wanted to do).

Turning of Fast Startup

1. Window Search bar (on start menu) type "Control Panel"

2. Control panel, choose "Hardware and Sound"

3. Under "Power Options", choose "What the power button does"

4. Click on "Change settings that are currently unavailable" link.

5. You will see a option called "Turn on Fast startup (recommended)" option. If it is ticked, un-tick it.

6. Save your settings.

Turn off Hibernate mode

1. Open command line (or terminal) under "Administrator"

2. Type following and press enter

         powercfg -h off

Turning off these two will make laptop to shut down properly.

While you are worry about battery, if you need to see very detail report about battery, you can do this by running following command under administrator command line (terminal):

        powercfg /batteryreport /output "C:\battery_report.html"

Note you can change the output path if you wish.