Windows 10: Hibernation settings unavailable and blocked by Guarded Host

Hey everyone,
I've recently noticed that my laptop is going to sleep when I press the power button. I've had it configured to hibernation previously. However, when I opened the power settings, neither the Fast Boot nor the hibernation was present. Not greyed out, but nonexistent. See first screenshot.
I've then found this (and many other) help pages: Fix: Hibernate Option Missing in Windows 10 Power Options | Password Recovery
They tell you to run powercfg /hibernate on and powercfg /h /type full to enable hibernation.
However, this didn't work for me as it was "blocked by Guarded Host". See second screenshot.
I haven't changed anything regarding power recently, so this is very unexpected.
I don't know what to do. Please help!

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hibernating windows 10

Hi Henry,

We appreciate your time and effort to get back to us.

I suggest you to enable the Hibernate option from power settings and check if you are able to access the Hibernate in power options. Follow the below steps.

Please try the steps and check if it helps.

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  Press Windows + R keys on the keyboard to open Run command.
  
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  Type powercfg.cpl to open the power settings.
  
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  Click on the Choose what power buttons do on the left navigation pane.
  
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  Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable (Enter the admin credentials if prompted)
  
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  Check the Hibernate box.
  
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  Click on Save changes.
  
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  Restart the computer.
  
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  Check if you are able to see the Hibernate option in power options
  

I hope the above information helps. Kindly let us know if you need any further assistance with Windows. We are glad to assist you.

Thank you.

 

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Is it ok to Hibernate on W10

Just for clarity, what are the specific steps that you took in adding the hibernate option to the Start menu? We will give you the most advisable way in adding back the hibernate option to the Start menu. Kindly do the following steps using an administrator
account:

• Type control panel on the search bar.
• Click on Control Panel.
• Click on System and Security.
• Click on Power Options.
• On the left panel, click on Choose what the power buttons do.
• Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable.
• Put a check on Hibernate.
• Click on Save changes, then close the window.

If the steps that you took are different from what we have given, we highly recommend that you do the given steps instead.

Let us know if you need further assistance with your concern.