PotatoFish Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Once, I left Paint.NET running on my laptop and just left it to sleep, the battery was quite drained by the time I returned. Is this supposed to happen? The drainage was from 80% to less than 20% battery life. Note that I did not have any other applications running at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LionsDragon Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 I've never known it to happen. Almost sounds like something was running in the background that you didn't catch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PotatoFish Posted May 14, 2018 Author Share Posted May 14, 2018 On 5/11/2018 at 4:52 PM, LionsDragon said: I've never known it to happen. Almost sounds like something was running in the background that you didn't catch. I've checked before I close it. Nothing was running at the moment. I'll check again the next time I do so and let you know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodiumEnglish Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 How old is the laptop? Could the battery be going bad? By saying you checked for something in the background, did you look at the task manager processes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toe_head2001 Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 This is a bit silly. Processes don't run in the background while a computer is in sleep mode. The computer goes into a lower power state (usually less than 0.5W); just enough to retain what's in RAM. Quote (September 25th, 2023) Sorry about any broken images in my posts. I am aware of the issue. My Gallery | My Plugin Pack Layman's Guide to CodeLab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PotatoFish Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 13 hours ago, SodiumEnglish said: How old is the laptop? Could the battery be going bad? By saying you checked for something in the background, did you look at the task manager processes? It just reached 1 year old a month ago. I highly doubt the battery is going bad so soon. 8 hours ago, toe_head2001 said: This is a bit silly. Processes don't run in the background while a computer is in sleep mode. The computer goes into a lower power state (usually less than 0.5W); just enough to retain what's in RAM. And that is why I'm curious whether leaving Paint.NET running could be a culprit of the drain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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