Battery Issues with Aspire 5 17-52 (17.3'') – Seeking Advice

Bekkah

Hi everyone,

I've been experiencing some frustrating battery issues with my Acer Aspire 5 17-52 (17.3'') laptop. When I first purchased it (about 2-3 years ago), the battery was advertised to last up to 10 hours on a full charge. However, despite tweaking all the settings for optimal power efficiency and using the battery saver mode, it still seems to drain rapidly.

I checked the Task Manager and noticed a lot of background processes running, but it's hard to figure out which ones are necessary and which ones I can safely disable.

Since my laptop is now out of warranty and otherwise in good condition, I'm hesitant to replace the battery just yet—as it feels like it’s too soon. As a student, having a reliable battery is super important for me.

Does anyone have any tips on:

1. Identifying and managing unnecessary background processes?
2. Troubleshooting battery health or improving its performance?
3. Determining if a battery replacement is really necessary?
4. And literally anything else on how to prevent this from happening

Here are some screenshots there is probably 2-3 more lengths of these on my task manager.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/718936/battery-issues-with-aspire-5-17-52-17-3-seeking-advice

Hi, after 4 years the battery may be bad, also check the background apps running in Task Manager-Processes those should not exceed 80, disable all bloatware and 3rd party browsers-virus checkers. Run a battery report, paste this in the command prompt: powercfg /batteryreport and open the report with your Edge browser, right click and select "Print to Microsoft PDF", attach the report to your reply, type @Puraw or use "Quote" when you reply so I will get an alert.

Bekkah

@Puraw can you give me some examples of other bloatware, I had already removed the Norton anti- virus checker

Bekkah

Battery Report.pdf

@Puraw here is my battery report, and thank you for your help

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1318847#Comment_1318847

AnhEZ28

@Bekkah

Upon checking the battery report, I see that the wear level is about 52%, which explains why the laptop drains quickly when using the battery. Some options are: bringing the charger with you if you usually sit near the outlet, or replacing the battery. The battery model you can search online is AP18C8K.