Windows 11 22H2 ADK finally solves battery issues; improves battery life

Microsoft released the latest changes and improvements to Windows 11 22H2 ADK, and the Redmond-based tech giant is looking to improve the battery life on its devices.

The Assessment Toolkit addresses many battery issues, while also coming up with fixes to improve idle hygiene during battery life tests.

You can see all the changes and improvements coming to the Assessment Toolkit below:

• Updated browsing battery life workloads.
• Added face authentication metrics and improved reliability of Modern Standby performance assessment.
• Added new automated diagnostics to battery life jobs (package C-state residency, idle hygiene).
• Fixed various crashes affecting ETW traces processing of assessment results.
• Fixed various bugs affecting Media Player automation reliability of media playback performance assessments.
• Fixed randomly occurring bugs affecting idle hygiene during battery life tests.
• Fixed missing performance metrics for Microsoft Edge performance assessment due to ETW instrumentation changes.

It seems that Microsoft took the battery issues into its own hands and the company made sure the battery tests won’t run into any troubles from now on.

However, there is more to come to Windows 11 22H2 ADK with the September update.

Windows 11 22H2 ADK: What’s new?

Windows PE

• Added support for x64 emulation on Arm64 WinPE as an optional component

Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA)

• WPA is now built on .NET 6, which includes native ARM64 support.
• New UI
  • Diagnostic Console
  • Trace Processing with Select Table
  • Settings
• Addressed a ETL trace processing issue related to .NET 7, see ETW Trace Processing Fails with Error Code 0x80070032

Windows System Image Manager

• x86 version of SIM can create catalogs for Windows images of all supported architecture types.

Assessment toolkit known issues

• On ARM64 devices, the WPA executable is not automatically added to the PATH environment variable.
• When maximizing WPA in fullscreen on a secondary monitor, the top left right-click menu appears on the incorrect monitor.