How to See Power Usage in Windows 10’s Task Manager

Author: Chris Hoffman / Source: How-To Geek

Windows 10’s Task Manager now shows you the power usage of each process on your system. This feature is new in the October 2018 Update.

How to See a Process’s Power Usage Details

First, open the Task Manager by right-clicking your taskbar and selecting “Task Manager,” or by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc.

If you don’t see the full Task Manager pane, click “More Details” at the bottom.

This information appears on the Processes pane but is hidden by the small size of the window. Enlarge the window by clicking and dragging at the corner until you see the Power Usage and Power Usage Trend columns, or scroll to the right. You can also drag and drop the headings to reorder the list of columns.

If you don’t see these columns, right-click the headings here and enable the “Power Usage” and “Power Usage Trend” columns.

If these options don’t appear in the list, you haven’t upgraded to the October 2018 Update yet.

What Do “Power Usage” and “Power Usage Trend” Mean?

Each process has a value under these columns. The Power Usage column tells you how much power the process is using at this exact moment, while the Power Usage Trend column shows you the longer-term trend. You can click the columns to sort by either type power usage.

For example, a process might currently not be using much power at this very moment, but might…

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