How to protect laptop if my outlet isn't grounded?

How should I protect my laptop while traveling in southeast Asia? I will not be staying in star rated (ie: 1-5 star) hotels. I will often be in more rural areas where there are no grounded outlets and dodgy voltage coming in. My laptop charger specifically says "Connect only to grounded outlet". Oh and one more fun fact, often times a 3 pronged outlet isn't grounded, it just has 3 prongs for adapter purposes! Is there a way to safely charge my laptop in these areas?

And finally, even in Bangkok much of the outlets are not grounded (again despite how many prongs are on the wall's outlet), so this really applies to all of south east Asia, not just the rural areas.

Some people here recommend buying higher grade power supplies with voltage regulation (all areas). I'm unsure of whether or not this is simply hearsay or actually an appropriate solution.

All you can really do is one of two things. One, create your own ground. This involves a little wiring, and pounding a grounding stake into the ground (6' copper). The other is to buy a UPS and have it be your "sacrificial lamb." Basically you are having the UPS take any and all damage while your laptop is charging. Problem is, I suspect some UPS's to be intelligent enough to not function on a ground fault.

Similar to Everett's answer, you can use copper wire & an exposed (metal) cold water pipe to create a ground/earth connection. (I would've added this as a comment, but I lack sufficient reputation to do that).

Also, I think the "dead weight" that Zombies refers to in the comment on Everett's answer means a UPS that won't function due to a ground fault (not the weight/mass of the UPS itself).

Any good-quality laptop power adapter is "double-insulated" and does not truly need to be grounded. The grounding is done for some laptops because the manufacturers, er, "got burned" due to some defective adapters they built, and they started grounding them as a sort of penance.

What you should probably do is carry a "suicide plug" (3-prong to 2-prong adapter) for use in situations where a 3-prong outlet is not present. (Note that you may even want to use this adapter on 3-prong outlets that are suspect, since the third prong could be wired to the neutral in a mistaken attempt to "ground" it.)

Further, you can take the step of running a wire from the ground tab of the adapter to a water pipe, or you can purchase a GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) extension cord from a place that sells power tools. (Note, an GFCI does not need a ground to operate correctly and provide shock protection.) If you use a GFCI, be sure to plug any accessories you use into the GFCI as well.

The one thing that the GFCI does not provide that the "real" ground might (or might not, depending on the particular laptop) is grounding for the sake of noise elimination. But this would only be of significance if the laptop is connected to other devices.

I travel in Southeast Asia often and while I am not concerned about my laptop or charger getting fried by not being grounded, I get shocked by touching the frame of my laptop when it is not grounded. and I am so irritated by this feeling. Finally, tonight I decided to take a stereo wire I had, jammed it into the ground termianal of my power strip which feeds to the laptop and taped it to a nail they had in the wall that's holding up a picture frame. And now the shock is gone.

When I get back I am going to by a grounding wire. Perhaps they have some with magnetic ends so I can just stick it to any kind of metal I can find in the room. Or an aligator clamp might work too. I run across this problem way too often. I don't even understand why the case of my laptops becomes capable of shocking me anyway. It's low voltage DC power after it's been converted. What's up with that?