ToolTip: PwrTest (Testing Windows Power Management)

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:23:26 +0000

While reading the Microsoft Whitepaper Diagnosing Application Compatibility Issues Affecting Windows Power Management I came across a utility called PwrTest that can be used to diagnose sleep reliability issues and more… The below list shows the various options the tool provides.

 **Scenario**

 **Description**

 sleep

 for sleep/resume transition testing 

 battery

 for battery information testing 

 info

 for system capabilities information 

 es

 for thread execution state changes 

 idle

 for power idle statistics 

 ppm

 for processor power management testing 

 timer

 for system timer resolution statistics 

 disk

 for disk idle statistics 

 device

 for device idle statistics 

 monitor

 for monitor dimming and blanking statistics 

 requests

 for showing power requests 

 thermal

 for ACPI thermal zone monitoring 

 processidle

 for forcing idle/background tasks to be run 

 PwrTest.exe is part of the Windows Driver Kit that can be downloaded from [here](http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/confirmation.aspx?id=11800). You will need to download an ISO file that is approx. 620 MB, but no worries, no need to install the Full Driver Kit to get this utility. When launching the installer, just select the Tools.

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ToolTip: PwrTest (Testing Windows Power Management)