Kidorry Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 My wife has an external hard drive for her old laptop and if she leaves it plugged in,every time she starts up the laptop you cannot open the external HD until it has finished downloading everything on it.This takes an age. She has XP.Is there any way I can stop this for her.I leave mine plugged in all the time with no problems.I forget the name of the HD but I will look when I get home,I know it is German.(sorry about wrong headline) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tintin123 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 The only thing I can think of is that XP is indexing all the files on the external drive. Try turning off indexing. This explains how to do it. http://lifehacker.com/031440/turn-off-indexing-and-speed-up-windows-xp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidorry Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Cheers tintin & mozalan it worked a treat,wife well chuffed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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