PC loses / closes apps and programs when hibernating

Hi folks,

Hope someone can help with this. This is the second of two queries this morning.

For the last few weeks (since Christmas anyhow) my laptop is behaving in a wierd way.

Quite often, although not EVERY time, I hasten to add, when turning my machine back on by pressing the power button, it is like a restart and all the programs and apps that I had open when I close the lid are gone.

This is VERY annoying.



Any thoughts / suggestions / fixes?

As I said above, this is the second of two queries this morning, the first appears here

Cheers,

Art

PC is Thinkpad T495s / Win 11 Pro / version 23H2 22631.4890

Turn off hibernation restart your computer and turn back on the hibernation to see it will help.

You can open the Command Prompt as an admin and execute the first command to turn off hibernation and second command to turn on hibernation.

Thanks for the suggestions.

It isn't hibernation which is broken per se, it is the fact that virually every time Ii turn my laptop on, all of the open programs - Word, Excel, Notepad and Chrome, EVERYTHING has to be re-loaded. So now, as a matter of course, I have to save everything before shutting the lid just in case!

I'll try your suggestion (and your other suggestion for resetting Windows Search (just clicked on Search and lo and behold, it is working again - the wind must have changed direction as I haven't done anything since my earlier post).

Don't ya just love Windows?!

Art

Can you open eventvwr, and look at the time you booted your pc and when you closed the lid, and make some printscreen of it? (Under Event viewer (local), Windows Logs -> Sytem)