No low battery notification and my computer always just shuts off, I have all the right settings on

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I purchased my laptop now for about 6 months and the most annoying part is that there is never a low battery notification before my laptop hibernates. It has never shown up once.

The battery meter is active and shown in my system tray. I have gone into power options, changed advanced battery options for low, critical, and reserve levels as well as turned ON low battery notification. In system tray properties > notification area > customize > I have also selected "show icon and notifications".

The windows 7 microsoft website as well as many other forums only suggest to do these 2 things. I HAVE done these two things, as they were the original settings when I bought this laptop new...what else can I do? Is there a patch, download, anything?! I would rather not have to install 3rd party software. I would just like my laptop to function properly. I am not a heavy gamer or student, I just use my laptop to surf the web and watch videos. I also use free Avira antivirus, if any of this is important to why a battery notification won't show up.

Edit: My friend and I bought the exact same computer on the same day. His shows notifications and mine doesn't, so I know it's possible.

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Anonymous

Just open your

"control panel"

and then "power option" then

"change advance power settings"

there select the profile you want to active( power saver ,high performance etc.)

Then scroll down to "battery" expand it and find "low battery notification" and turn "on" for both "on battery" and "plugged in" and you will done.

Note :- not necessary to turn it on for "plugged in"

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Anonymous

2010-05-19T23:41:54+00:00

Hi,

a. Have you tried using a different battery on this laptop?

Method 1.

You can run the Power troubleshooter to adjust your computer's power settings. The Power troubleshooter checks things like your computer's timeout settings, which determine how long the computer waits before turning off the monitor display or entering sleep mode. Adjusting these settings can help you conserve power and extend your computer's battery life.

Refer to the article below for steps.

Open the Power troubleshooter

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Open-the-Power-troubleshooter

**Method 2.**Have you performed the steps listed under "My laptop shuts down or goes into hibernation too soon after the low-battery notification appears, or the low-battery notification never appears." in the article below?

Solutions to common power problem

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Solutions-to-common-power-problems

Hope this helps.

Thanks and Regards:

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