There are several reasons why we experience High power usage by Windows Explorer. Obviously, we will also find several ways to solve it. In this article, we will see all those methods that we have in order to quickly find the solution.
How to fix Windows Explorer high power usage
Run the troubleshooter for high power usage in Windows Explorer
The troubleshooter is an automated system tool that allows us to solve a large number of problems that we may have in our system. If you are experiencing high power usage by Windows Explorer, then running the Power Troubleshooter might be a good solution.
Restore power plan settings
Windows gives us the ability to create different power plans. It is also possible to edit the plans that come by default in the system. If we have created a new plan or edited a default one, we may have touched something that was perhaps not ideal. Then it is best to reset it to default settings.
- Click start and type Control Panel.
- Next, we go to Hardware and Sound > Power Options.
- We select our plan and click on Change plan settings.
- Now let’s Change advanced power plan settings.
- Here we will have to select Restore default energy values.
- We click Apply and then OK.
Configure PC for better performance
- Click Start and type advanced system settings.
- Now let’s go to View advanced system settings in the search results.
- The System Properties window will appear. In the Advanced tab, we are going to click on Settings and select Performance.
- Here we will have to choose the Adjust option to obtain better performance, we will see a notable change.
Reinstall the battery controller
Obviously, when the battery controller does not work properly, we are going to experience problems in the power supply of the computer.
- We go to Device Manager from the start menu.
- We expanded the battery menu.
- Right-click on the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery Controller and choose Disable Device.
- We wait a few minutes and then we right click again and we go to Enable device.
In case disabling and enabling the device does not work. We will have to proceed to uninstall it. It’s as simple as right clicking and uninstalling it; then we restart the computer and the drivers will have to be installed automatically.
Check for Windows updates
We’ll have to check a few things. The first will be if we have any pending update, if so we will have to install it. In case we have already installed an update and then the problems start, then we will have to uninstall the previously installed Windows update.
