https://github.com/jasonwei512/energystarx

🔋 Improve your Windows 11 device's battery life. A WinUI 3 GUI for https://github.com/imbushuo/EnergyStar.
https://github.com/jasonwei512/energystarx

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🔋 Improve your Windows 11 device's battery life. A WinUI 3 GUI for https://github.com/imbushuo/EnergyStar.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jasonwei512/energystarx
• Owner: JasonWei512
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2022-09-26T12:28:22.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: develop
• Last Pushed: 2025-01-14T04:48:25.000Z (7 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-17T19:17:45.959Z (3 days ago)
• Topics: battery, battery-life, ecoqos, windows-11, windows11, winui, winui-3, winui3
• Language: C#
• Homepage: https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NF7JTB3B17P
• Size: 4.59 MB
• Stars: 990
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 19
• Open Issues: 23
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

        
🌏 [简体中文](README.zh-hans.md)



  





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![Screenshot](.msstore/images/2_Screenshot.png)

# Donate

## Donate on [Buy Me a Coffee](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickjohn):

(Open on your phone to pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay)

[![Buy me a coffee](src/EnergyStarX/Assets/InApp/Buy_me_a_coffee.png)](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nickjohn)

## For Chinese users, scan with WeChat:

![WeChat Donation QR Code](src/EnergyStarX/Assets/InApp/WeChat_Donation_QR_Code.png)

# Introduction

Energy Star X leverages Windows 11's [EcoQoS API](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/performance-diagnostics/introducing-ecoqos) (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](https://github.com/imbushuo/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](src/EnergyStarX/Assets/InApp/Task_Manager_Leaf.jpg)

# Known Limitations

- If you are using mouse-related software such as [Logi Options+](https://www.logitech.com/en-us/software/logi-options-plus.html), 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](https://www.startallback.com), 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

- imbushuo: https://github.com/imbushuo

- App Icon: 

  - https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/star_3103390

  - https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/accept_4303945

  - https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/pause-button_2285134

# How to contribute

See [Contributing.md](./doc/Contributing.md).