winget install --id=NickJohn.EnergyStarX -e
๐ Improve your Windows 11 device's battery life.
Energy Star X is a power management tool designed to optimize battery life and thermal performance on Windows 11 devices by leveraging the EcoQoS API. This software ensures that background applications are throttled to extend battery life while maintaining smooth operation of foreground tasks, thus preserving user experience.
Key Features:
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for Windows 11 users seeking improved battery life and thermal management on compatible devices. Energy Star X ensures that devices operate efficiently while maintaining responsive performance for active tasks, making it a valuable tool for both casual users and power users looking to optimize their hardware.
Energy Star X can be installed via winget, offering a straightforward setup process for Windows 11 users.
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Improve your Windows 11 device's battery life
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Energy Star X leverages Windows 11's EcoQoS API (aka "Efficiency Mode") to throttle background applications to improve battery life and system thermal. It will not throttle foreground application to ensure user experience.
This app is a GUI version of the open source software EnergyStar, developed with Windows App SDK (WinUI 3).
For the best result, you need:
This app can work on Windows 11 21H2 (Build 22000) and older hardware, but may not get the best result.
Let it run in background in the system tray. You can choose to run it automatically at startup in settings page.
You can see a green leaf icon next to throttled background process in Task Manager's "Status" column.
See Contributing.md.