On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 21:58:47 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Subject: Can I make battery-dropout cause a "sleep"?
If that's the right name.

At present, if the battery runs down when I'm not looking, on restarting
the machine (by pressing the power button) after connecting the supply,
it does a restart similar to if I'd shut it down, other than that it
gives the "Windows did not shut down properly", and some app.s say
_they_ did not shut down properly.

Is it possible to set something so that the system does a "sleep",
"hibernate", or whatever, so that when I apply power and restart, it
wakes itself up how it was? If it is, what settings do I have to change
where?

I'm not talking about shutdowns instigated by an action, such as closing
the lid or pressing the power button. Is it even _possible_ to trap the
"battery is too low" situation?

W7 HP SP1 32-bit.


Yes, you can.
See https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3963...-in-windows-7/
and https://www.thewindowsclub.com/chang...on-windows-8-7


I set mine to "hibernate", not "sleep". "Sleep" still uses power,
even if less. After too many hours in "sleep" the battery will
still run down and give the same problem.

The laptop takes a little longer to restart from "hibernate" than
from "sleep", but I think it is worth it to avoid the risk of
the battery running down.


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Kind regards
Ralph