Windows 10: See if Apps are Power Throttling in Windows 10

How to: See if Apps are Power Throttling in Windows 10

How to See if Apps are Power Throttling in Windows 10


Most people running Windows like having multiple apps running at the same time and often, whats running in the background can drain your battery.

You may remember some of the power experiments Microsoft did back in January with Windows 10 build 15002. Power Throttling was one of those experiments, and showed to have up to 11% savings in CPU power consumption for some of the most strenuous use cases.

In Windows 10 build 16176, Microsoft leveraged modern silicon capabilities to run background work in a power-efficient manner, thereby enhancing battery life significantly while still giving users access to powerful multitasking capabilities of Windows. With Power Throttling, when background work is running, Windows places the CPU in its most energy efficient operating modes work gets done, but the minimal possible battery is spent on that work.

How does it work? To give great performance to the apps youre using, while at the same time power throttling background work, Microsoft built a sophisticated detection system into Windows. The OS identifies work that is important to you (apps in the foreground, apps playing music, as well as other categories of important work we infer from the demands of running apps and the apps the user interacts with). While this detection works well for most apps, if you happen to notice an app that is negatively impacted by Power Throttling, we really want to know!! You can do 3 things:
1. Provide feedback. Run the Feedback Hub and file feedback under the Power and Battery > Throttled Applications category.

2. Control power throttling system-wide, using the Power Slider. Windows works hardest to keep the processor in its efficient ranges when you’ve selected “Battery Saver” or “Recommended”, and turns off completely when you’ve selected “Best Performance”.

3. Opt individual apps out from Power Throttling by turning off Let Windows decide when this app can run in the background in Battery usage by app, and unchecking Reduce work app does when in background.
For more information about Power Throttling, see: Introducing Power Throttling - Windows Experience Blog

This tutorial will show you how to see if your running apps currently have Power Throttling enabled or disabled in Windows 10.

Power Throttling is currently available only for processors with Intel’s Speed Shift technology, available in Intel’s 6th-gen (and beyond) Core processors – Microsoft is working on expanding support to other processors as well over the next few months.





Here's How:

1 Open Task Manager in more details view.

2 Click/tap on the Details tab in Task Manager. (see screenshot below)

3 Look in the Power Throttling column to see if shows as Enabled or Disabled for each running app.

Starting with Task Manager column name has changed from Background Moderated to Power Throttling.

You will need to add the "Power Throttling" column to see it.








That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Enable or Disable Power Throttling in Windows 10
• How to Change Power Mode Level in Windows 10
• How to Manage Battery Usage by App in Windows 10

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Introducing Power Throttling in Windows 10

Source: Introducing Power Throttling - Windows Experience Blog


See also:

• Change Power Mode Level in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials
• Manage Battery Usage by App in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Apps Features Tutorials

 

Power Throttling in Windows 10


In addition: *Wink

Enable or Disable Power Throttling in Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

See if Apps are Power Throttling in Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

Manage Battery Usage by App in Windows 10 Apps Features Tutorials

Change Power Mode Level in Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

 

Power Throttling in Windows 10


So I came across this page:

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/power-...ing-windows-10

that talks about which processes use power throttling and when I follow the directions and click select columns I do not see an option to tick Power Throttling. Win 10 Pro. Anyone else who does not see the Power Throttling option? TIA.

 

Microsoft Introducing Power Throttling

"Most people running Windows like having multiple apps running at the same time – and often, what’s running in the background can drain your battery. In this latest Insider Preview build (Build 16176), we leveraged modern silicon capabilities to run background work in a power-efficient manner, thereby enhancing battery life significantly while still giving users access to powerful multitasking capabilities of Windows. With “Power Throttling”, when background work is running, Windows places the CPU in its most energy efficient operating modes – work gets done, but the minimal possible battery is spent on that work.

You may remember some of our January power experiments we mentioned in Build 15002’s release notes. Power Throttling was one of those experiments, and showed up to 11% savings in CPU power consumption for some of the most strenuous use cases. We’ve been hard at work making improvements and listening to Windows Insider feedback since then, so this capability should help many of you see a nice boost in battery life!"





"Note: Power Throttling is currently available only for processors with Intel’s Speed Shift technology, available in Intel’s 6th-gen (and beyond) Core processors – we’re working on expanding support to other processors as well over the next few months.

How does it work? To give great performance to the apps you’re using, while at the same time power throttling background work, we built a sophisticated detection system into Windows. The OS identifies work that is important to you (apps in the foreground, apps playing music, as well as other categories of important work we infer from the demands of running apps and the apps the user interacts with). While this detection works well for most apps, if you happen to notice an app that is negatively impacted by Power Throttling, we really want to know!! You can do 3 things:

1. Provide feedback! Please run the Feedback Hub and file feedback under the Power and Battery > Throttled Applications category

2. Control power throttling system-wide, using the Power Slider. Windows works hardest to keep the processor in its efficient ranges when you’ve selected “Battery Saver” or “Recommended”, and turns off completely when you’ve selected “Best Performance”."





"3. Opt individual apps out from Power Throttling:

• Go to Battery Settings (Settings > System > Battery).
• Click on “Battery Usage by App”.
• Select your app.
• Toggle “Managed by Windows” to “Off”.
• Uncheck the “Reduce work app does when in background” checkbox.

Note that benchmark results may vary with power throttling turned on. While most benchmarks run fine and produce great performance results, some benchmark processes may be affected by throttling. Our general recommendation is to always run performance benchmarks while plugged in, as power throttling does not apply in that case.

Developer note: Power throttling is designed to work well with applications out of the box, but we recognize that in some cases, application developers may be able to provide additional power savings by having more fine-grained control over Power Throttling. We will have APIs to provide more fine grained control in upcoming flights. Please make sure to watch out for API updates on MSDN.

*Power throttling is a temporary working name for this capability and may change during the course of the development cycle for the next release of Windows."

Introducing Power Throttling | Windows Experience Blog

 

Power Throttling in Windows 10


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