Laptop becomes unresponsive after being powered on from hibernation mode

Hello, I again am having a problem with my Inspiron N5110 laptop. This time it is when I power on my laptop after it has gone into hibernation mode, after being in sleep mode for over an hour; I have the power settings set to make the computer enter hibernation mode after being in sleep mode for over an hour so, it boots up fine but it seems like it stops becoming responsive. No programs, when launched, open up and when I put my cursor on the task bar, it becomes that familiar spinning icon that indicates it launching or running a particular program tasked. I have sat several minutes waiting for it to respond and open the program(s) I've tasked it to, but nothing happens. I was wondering what could be the problem here and what could be done here to fix it, like a bios update or something?. Thank you to whoever helps!

PS. if it wasn't already known, my laptop runs Windows 7 as it's OS. Also please do share links where I can get various updates if these updates are the solutions, Thanks again!