8个简单方法让你的电脑提速

Is your desktop or laptop computer starting to feel a little poky? Even after just a few months of use, your PC or Mac may start to lose steam thanks to a fragmented hard drive, too many programs running in the background, or even a rogue piece of malware.

开始察觉到你的台式机或笔记本电脑变的有那么点儿不好用了？只用了几个月，你的PC或MAC就失去了它的锐气，“感谢”硬盘驱动器中的某块碎片吧，这可能是因为太多程序同时在后台运行，或者是一个恶意软件在“淘气”。

This week on Upgrade Your Life, Yahoo! News' Becky Worley serves up some quick and easy tricks for speeding up your PC or Mac, starting with …

在这周的“提高你的生活质量”栏目中，来自雅虎新闻的贝奇·沃利给大家提供了一些快速又简单的小把戏，让你的电脑健步如飞，现在让我们开始吧。
 

1. Clean out your startup items

1.清理你的开机启动项目

How long do you have to wait after hitting your PC's power button before you can actually get to work? Thirty seconds? A minute? Two minutes? More?

在按下开机的按钮后，你要等多久才能真正开始工作？30秒？1分钟？2分钟？难道更多？

If you find yourself routinely twiddling your thumbs while your PC or Mac painstakingly boots itself up, maybe it's because your system is trying to fire up a slew of programs at the same time (and indeed, some programs will set themselves to launch at startup by default). Here's how to ease the frantic rush of competing startup programs:

如果你发现在等待电脑艰难的发动时，你都习惯玩着你的手指了，这也许得归因于你的系统正在尝试同时发动一堆程序（一些程序会默认设置它们为开机启动，这是一定的）。下面就是如何轻松的和这些开机启动程序斗争的方法：