The wait for the Windows 11 23H2 update arriving this fall is making many users who are fans of the Microsoft operating system particularly impatient. The desire to try out new features as soon as possible is evident, and the Redmond company is well aware of it. Also for this reason it is releasing more and more preview features through the Dev channel for Insiders. The latest Windows 11 Preview Build 23506, in particular, introduces new options for battery and power usage monitor for computers.
Windows 11 is updated in the Dev channel, and what’s new!
As reported by user PhantomOfEarth on Twitter, within the power settings on Windows 11 you can now find the “Power and Battery Usage” taban unprecedented option that not only displays total energy consumption, but also provides emissions data, proving particularly useful for all notebooks.
Battery usage in Power settings is becoming Energy (& battery) usage, will show energy usage data (per app as well) and on devices without batteries. Devices with batteries can switch between energy usage and battery level. Total energy usage/emissions data also shown. (23506) pic.twitter.com/PVpep5uiEX
— PhantomOcean3 💙💛 (@PhantomOfEarth) July 19, 2023
As you can see from the screenshots above, within the tab you will find graphs for monitor consumption in the last 24 hours, but also the subdivision of consumption by single application and many other interesting information. To enable them, however, you need to apply some changes with apps like ViVeTool, as not all insiders have access to them.
Therefore, to activate this feature you need to open ViVeTool and use the command “vivetool /enable /id:44663396,44663406”, with which both the functionality EmissionMonitor and HistoricalIntensityApi.
The stable release will most likely happen just with one of the next major updates. For now, the most impatient users just have to register for the Insider program – understanding that the OS can also have critical bugs – and wait for the update to be available.