Energy Star X Nick John

Use this command to install Energy Star X:

winget install --id=NickJohn.EnergyStarX -e

🔋 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:

EcoQoS Integration: Automatically manages resource allocation for background processes to improve energy efficiency without affecting active applications.
User-Friendly GUI: Built with WinUI 3, Energy Star X provides an intuitive interface for users to monitor and customize power-saving settings.
Compatibility Support: Works best on Windows 11 (22H2 or later) and modern Intel, AMD Ryzen, and Qualcomm mobile processors.
Customization Options: Users can whitelist specific applications to prevent performance issues with mouse-related software or taskbar enhancements.
Background Operation: Runs in the system tray for seamless integration, with optional startup automation.

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.

README

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Energy Star X

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Improve your Windows 11 device's battery life

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Introduction

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).

Requirements

For the best result, you need:

Software

Windows 11 22H2 (Build 22621) or above

Hardware

Intel 10th gen or newer mobile processors
AMD Ryzen 5000 or newer mobile processors
Qualcomm mobile processors

This app can work on Windows 11 21H2 (Build 22000) and older hardware, but may not get the best result.

Usage

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.

Task Manager Leaf

Known Limitations

If you are using mouse-related software such as Logi Options+, your mouse cursor may lag while moving. Please add these softwares to the whitelist.
If you are using some taskbar enhancement software such as StartAllBack, this app may crash when you hover over system tray icon.
Child processes do not get boosted when the parent process receives input focus.
System processes (which is Session 0) do not get throttled. Currently there are some assumption that non-user processes know what they are doing.

Acknowledgements

How to contribute

See Contributing.md.