Comments on: How to Run a Power Efficiency Report in Windows 7

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:18:35 +0000

Do not input C:\windows\system32\energy-report.html in the run field. I tried this to view the report and instead of the report opening up, Windows shut down (not a reboot).

Nice tool, but Windows 7 is turning out to be worse than XP.

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By: Desmond

Desmond — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:41:28 +0000

I had the same problem running Windows 7 x64. I changed my directory to my Documents folder instead of the system32 folder and it created the file.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:35:57 +0000

Michael – I had the same problem. Find the file in Win32 , copy and paste it to desktop or another (non-windows) directory, and then open it. Fixed the problem for me.

By: akishore

akishore — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:21:19 +0000

Hey Michael, I had this same problem also actually, but just thought it was my computer. For some reason, the security on the System32 folder is so tight that you can’t even open files there.

What I had to do was go into C:\Windows\System32 and then copy the file onto my desktop and then it opened fine. Not sure why the command prompt defaulted to C:\Windows\System32 in the first place!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:54:57 +0000

Ran cmd.exe as admin in Windows7 x64 Build 7100 and it says it generated the file but…

Error 6 (net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): The file or directory could not be found.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:31:36 +0000

This is almost exactly like powertop for Linux. A very useful tool I’ll be running right away – thanks for sharing!