Compaq F764CA & Windows 7 Upgrade = bad battery performance

Hi I was wondering if anyone else has come across this problem. I upgraded my wife's laptop to Windows 7 Ultimate and while there were some drivers from Vista required to work things out, I have noticed that her laptop battery performance has gone from an average of 2hours with Vista to only 20 minutes under Win7. There is even a little red cross on her battery system tray icon and hovering over it brings a message that I should install a new battery. This system is only 1.5 years old so I find the battery issue odd.
Suffice it to say, she is not too impressed so far. The official word from HP is that her laptop will not be supported for Windows 7 which means no official updated drivers. I don't understand how HP can say this for a 2 year old computer.
So any suggestions as to what I can do to help make the battery last longer than 20 minutes when it's not plugged in? If there are no Vista equivalent drivers then I might be stuck and will have to downgrade back to Vista.
Thanks for any tips or advice.
LoboTiger

Well, you will not like my next comment. I think the next step is to expect a motherboard problem. Since this problem has been known about for so long, I was hoping the manufacturers had solved this BUT you system is rather old. Google "bad caps" for symptoms it you are really interested but that would be my next avenue to explore. Strange things happen when those "caps" at first deteriorated to the point of failure. Once they get more age, stranger things will happen or it will just finely fail. Changing the OS will not solve the problem.
You said in your first post "This machine had Windows XP installed but since the End of Support i have been having problems". I think your problems were not linked to the EOL of WinXP, unfortunately.
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