Windows 10 Laptop powers down instead of hibernating when battery charge runs out

[FrankyMacky]

I have my laptop's "Critical battery action" set to "Hibernate" when running on the battery. The Low and Critical battery levels are default (10% and 5% respectively). The "Low battery action" is "Do nothing".My battery was running low and I was trying to work right up until the point of hibernation. However, the computer simply shut down rather than hibernating. It was very sudden (no shut down message).How can I ensure that the laptop hibernates instead of shutting down?What I tried:I found this SuperUser post, but I know that Hibernation is enabled as I do it manually.The laptop is an HP El

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