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

Anonymous
2010-05-19T07:07:41+00:00

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
2014-11-25T13:08:22+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2014-11-25T13:06:53+00:00

    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 level" and turn drop it down to what battery  percentage you want

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-11T22:29:52+00:00

    same here. ive got a brand new pavilion g7 and it just shuts down with out worning

    We have the same brand of computer and my OS is windows 8.1 it shuts off while the battery is still in 50% even the warning beep is gone.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-04T21:29:51+00:00

    I have an HP with Windows 8.1 .. & what I've found out is, if you have it set to hibernate or sleep instead of shut down when the battery is low, when you plug it in & power it back on, the stuff you were doing will still be there. So you don't lose something you've been working on.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-09-11T21:49:07+00:00

    I have a Dell Studio XPS 1645 and i am facing the same problem as well.

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