How to increase the battery life of your Laptop?

These days, Laptops have become a kind of necessity for not only working/travelling professionals but also just about every one. Here are a few tips from my side so that any leyman can increase his/her battery life. I mean the battery life! Anyways, Here you go:

• Firstly, try to reduce the screen brightness. It ain't good for you and also the life of battery for its a major battery hog.
• Verify the power saving setting(s) in your Win/Mac and configure it to put off the screen and hard-drive after being idle for some time. Never turn off your hard drive though!
• Always try hibernate over stand by. This actually is a good energy saving feature. Check this out at your wish/risk. Why it's a little risk? See this.
• Never go for a screen saver. Its actually not an energy saver!
• Wireless sensor consumes lot of battery power. Put it off when you are not using the network connection.
• Mute your speakers in laptop when you don't need it. Also turn off/disable the Bluetooth if you don't need it.
• Turn off all the scheduled tasks and don't run multimedia activities for long periods of time.
• Do not plug in the USB devices for a long periods of time. This includes your external/portable hard drives as well.
• Optical drives like CD/DVD or even blu ray in the combo drives these days consume a lot of power. So copy the contents on to the internal hard drive and see them.
• Hard disk also consumes some more power. Reduce hard disk activity by having more RAM.
• Always, fully dis-charge your recharged battery and only then recharge it again several times in a line. This way, your battery performs its best. I do the same.

Note: Over a period of time, any battery would deteriorate. These are just a few tips to increase its life. Hope this helps.

Source: Personal Exp