Are you frustrated by your laptop battery? Imagine sitting down at Starbucks and getting ready to surf the Net while drinking a latte - only to find that your battery is going flat in 5 minutes.

I hate it when that happens. I know you hate it too. So that's topic we will address in this article. How can we increase the battery life of our laptop?

Turns out there are many ways to do it - we'll discuss five of them right here. Read on and enjoy ...

Tip 1: Power Down the Display

Do you know one of the most effective ways to conserve laptop battery life is to lower the brightness of the screen display? Its been known that lowering one level of screen brightness will yield up to 10 more minutes of battery life. You can easily do this by going to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Display and clicking the Settings tab. You can also disable those cool effects like ClearType fonts and fade effects to reduce the CPU’s power consumption.

Power down the laptop display to save battery power
 

Tip 2: Turn Off Unused Devices

And here's another tip for you. As you may know, many modern laptops have a Wi-Fi built in. Unknown to many people, that Wi-Fi connection is a power guzzler! Make sure you turn off the Wi-Fi connection using the external Wi-Fi on-off switch. If your laptop does not offer such a switch, you should go to the Control Panel > System > Hardware > Device Manager and disable the infrared transceiver, Ethernet adapter and Bluetooth radio.
 

Tip 3: Decrease Hard Drive Activity

Your laptop hard drive is another power eating culprit. To sav