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Everyone looks for finding waysto reduce power consumption while using their electronic appliances. In thisarticle I will focus on finding ways for monitoring power consumption of your computer/laptopand let you know the ways by using which you can reduce the power consumption. Excessivepower consumption affects the life of your computersetup and alsothe battery life in case of laptop. Windows operating system including Windows8, Windows 7, Window Vista, and Windows XP  has leverages us to evaluate the power consumptionof computer through ‘PowerCfg’ command in the Command prompt. You will also getan HTML version of the current status of power consumption of your computer.Pre requisite for generation of Power consumption evaluation report:·        Youmust logon as Administrator or know the Administrator password for performingthe required task.For generating power evaluationreport on your computer you have to follow the following steps:·        Clickon the Start button, and then select All Programs from the right pane of the Startmenu.·        Clickon the Accessories and then make a right click on Command Prompt.·        SelectRun as Administrator, then a black screen also known as command line interfaceappears on your screen.·        Forgenerating a power consumption evaluation report you have to type “powercfg–energy” (without quotes) and press Enter key.·         You have to wait for 1 minutes or 60 secondsand during this period CPU will monitor the current status of power consumptionand after complete analysis list the number of errors, warnings andinformation.·        AnHTML version of this power consumption evaluation report is saved in thecomputer. You can get access to this computer and analyze it. The report isnamed as energy-report.html and you can get access through the following path: My Computer\c:\Windows\System32\ energy-report.htmlReport Analysis:This report is divided into fourparts:1.      General Information: First partitionof the report contains the basic information regarding your computer setup. Itcontains information like Computer name, Computer manufacturer, BIOS, BIOSbuild version, product name etc.2.      Errors: Second partition containsthe red background which contains information under error heading. This portionwill list the activities which are affecting the power consumption and batterylife of the computer. The problems listed under this category affect 15% ormore battery life of computer.3.      Warnings: Third partition of thisreport contains information with yellow background under Warnings heading. Thiscontains the information about the hardware and software which are consumingmore power as usual. You can try to fix them through hardware power managementavailable option in the control panel.4.      Information: Last partition ofwhite background which contain information about the system components that areinspected during the test. They don’t contain information about any specifichardware which is consuming excessive power.Precautionary measures forreducing Power Consumption:·        Itis always advised to put your computer in Sleep mode or Hibernate mode toreduce power consumption.·        Nowwith the advancement in technology we have new features like ZPOD which blocksthe power flow to the CDROM when not in use. It contains the electromechanicalhead which is responsible for reading/writing data on the CD/DVD and consumeslots of power. So Windows 8 provides a special feature ZPOD which restrict thepower flow to the CD/DVD ROM and thus reduces power consumption.·        Inlatest Windows operating system like Windows 8, Windows 7 a special option isdesigned in control panel for power management. Three modes of operation areprovided: Power saver, Balanced and High Performance. It is recommended to useBalanced mode but you can use any of them according to your need.  ·        Youcan also create Custom Power management plan according to your need through theControl Panel. You can adjust Sleep or Hibernate timing, suspend USB operation,Change processor working mode to minimum processor state and can select Hybridstate for your computer.So by following the aboveprecautionary measures you can reduce the power consumption and extend the lifeof your computer. You can also use some of the computermaintenance toolswhich constantly monitor power consumption of your computer and suggest theways to control it.