1 Clean up your hard drive清理你的硬盘
The more junk you have cluttering up your hard drive, the longer it takes for your system to access the data it needs—and that's a great reason to regularly scan your folders and toss out files and programs you don't need, or move them somewhere else to make more room.
你硬盘上积累的垃圾越多，你的系统找到需要数据的时间就越长——这就是定期检查文件夹设置和移除不需要的文件和程序的原因，或者将它们放到其他地方，以给
电脑留出更多空间。
One easy (and relatively cheap) solution, says Becky, is to buy an external hard drive for your music, photos, and videos, which can hog a surprisingly large amount of disk space (particularly when it comes to HD-quality TV shows and movies). You can find 500GB external hard drives
online for as little as $50, while plenty of 1TB drives (or 1,000 gigabytes) sell for south of $100. Most USB 2.0 external drives are plug-and-play, meaning you just plug them into your PC's USB 2.0 port and you're ready to start dragging and dropping.
一个简单（又相对便宜）的解决方法，在贝奇看来，就是为你的音乐，相片和视频购买一个去外接硬盘，它能保存让你惊讶的大量硬盘空间（尤其是在高清电视节目和电影时代时）。在网上，你会发现一个能容纳500GB的外接硬盘只需要50美元，同时还有很多可容纳1TB的移动硬盘（即1000GB）正在销售，这意味着你只需要把它们插入电脑的USB 2.0接口即可，而且还可以随时更换它们。
Another options: online storage sites, such as Dropbox and Carbonite.
另一个选择：使用在线存储网站，比如“Dropbox”和“Carbonite”。（译者注：类似中文网站中的“115网盘”等）
Becky also recommends dumping any old programs that you no longer use. For Windows, click the Start menu, open the Control Panel, and select Add/Remove Programs (or "Uninstall a program" in Windows 7). Mac users can look in the Applications folder, which you can open in the Mac OS X Finder by clicking the Window menu and clicking Applications. See a program you simply never use anymore? Consider tossing it in the trash—although again, never throw away an application without knowing what it does first.
贝奇还推荐卸载一些你已经不再使用的旧程序。对Window用户，单击“开始”菜单，打开“控制面板”，选择“添加或删除文件”（或Window7中的“卸载程序”）。苹果机的使用者们则可以找到“应用文件夹”，在那里，点击“窗口”菜单和“应用”按键后，你可以打开苹果操作系统查询。找到你一个基本不用的程序了吗？考虑把它扔到垃圾桶吧——再次强调，不要删除一个你不知道是什么的程序。
2 Defragment your hard drive重新整理你的硬盘
Your computer's hard drive is a lot like a closet: the more cluttered it is, the longer it takes to find stuff. One of the easiest (and most effective) ways of tidying up your hard drive is to defragment it, a process that involves consolidating scattered blocks of data into a larger chunk, resulting in bigger swaths of free disk space.
你电脑中的硬盘已经更像一个橱柜了：它越是乱，找东西所花的时间就越长。让你的硬盘变整洁，有一个最简单（也是最有效率的）的方法，那就是重新整理它，帮助整合分散的数据区块成一个大块，使你拥有更整齐的列表和更多空间。
Luckily, defragmenting your hard drive in Windows is a snap. Select Computers from the Start menu, right-click on the icon that represents your hard drive, select Properties, click the Tools tab, and click the Defragment Now button.
幸运的是，在Windows系统下重新整理你的硬盘只不过是小意思。从开始菜单中进入“我的电脑”，右键点击需要整理的硬盘图标，选择属性，然后点击其中的“工具”一栏，最后单击“开始整理”即可。
Got a Mac? Thanks to the disk optimization features built into Mac OS X, there's "little benefit" to manually fragmenting your hard drive, Apple says. But if you're feeling the need to try it anyway, there are several third-party defragmenting utilities for the Mac, including iDefrag and Drive Genius; just make sure to back up your data before giving them a go.
你用的是苹果机？那感谢苹果操作系统的磁盘优化特征吧，苹果说，手工整理硬盘是会对你有“好处”的哦。但如果你认为仍然值得尝试一下自动化，那么，这里有一些针对苹果系统的第三方整理应用，包括“iDefrag”和“Drive Genius”；只要确保在使用他们前备份好了你的数据就行。
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