{"id":341,"date":"2023-05-14T12:07:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:28:12","slug":"software-bloat-allocating-extra-hard-drive-space-as-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Software Bloat:  Allocating Extra Hard Drive Space As RAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/softwarebloat.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342\" style=\"width:491px;height:305px\" width=\"491\" height=\"305\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have an older laptop that I use for small tasks, but it no longer has sufficient resources to run the demands of ever-growing OS and browser bloat. <em>  If the RAM of your computer is not sufficient, both the performance and the speed will be affected. On Windows 10, you\u2019re allowed to use your hard drive as RAM.  Shout out to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.minitool.com\/news\/use-hard-drive-as-ram-windows-10.html\" target=\"_blank\">minitool.com to provide clear instructions as to how you how to increase the RAM by using hard disk on Windows 10.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an older laptop that I use for small tasks, but it no longer has sufficient resources to run the demands of ever-growing OS and browser bloat. If the RAM of your computer is not sufficient, both the performance and the speed will be affected. On Windows 10, you\u2019re allowed to use your hard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/?p=341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Software Bloat:  Allocating Extra Hard Drive Space As RAM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrystalsander.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}