How to View Battery Cycle Count on a Windows Laptop
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Summary
A battery cycle relates to one full drain of a laptop battery’s charge, and the battery cycle count refers to the number of times this has occurred.
The lower the cycle count, the healthier the battery, with most batteries functioning properly for at least 500 cycles.
To check a Windows laptop’s battery count, open Command Prompt and type powercfg /batteryreport, then find and double click on the C:\Users[YOUR USERNAME]\battery-report.html file to open it in your default web browser.
The Design Capacity is the maximum charge that the battery has, whereas the Full Charge Capacity is the current capacity of the battery.
If these numbers are similar, the battery is healthy, but if the Full Charge Capacity is much lower than the Design Capacity, it has degraded severely.
The Cycle Count tells users how many times the battery has undergone a charge cycle, and if it is high, the maximum capacity will most likely be a lot lower than the original level.
If your battery exceeds the recommended cycle count, it will probably still work, but you will need to charge it more frequently.
