Theresa, I have some strongly held opinions on several of your points;
First make sure that your external USB drive is running at USB2 speed and not 1.1 (there's a roughly 40 time speed difference)! An external HD will always run MUCH slower than an internal drive, so even under the best of circumstances, you risk timeouts on the net. For that and some other reasons, it's always a not-so-good idea to run programs (any programs) from the external drive. Do not split up a program and any associated preferences, they should always snuggle. Otherwise they get lonely and cantankerous. And you know that a fearful and lonely mind is the Devil's workshop. I have used both Eudora and Opera and consider the first to be a clunky POS. And I use neither any more, having switched over to Mozilla's Thunderbird for e-mail and Firefox for surfing (and never looked back). Photoshop should always be run by itself, because it is a memory hog (especially if all you got is one GIG of RAM). And if you don't give it enough swap memory on the internal HD, you're begging for more difficulties. Why are you running Opera and IE at the same time (come to think of it, why are you using IE at all)? Doesn't make sense. Either shut down programs you're not currently using or get yourself another GIG of RAM and make sure you have plenty of space on the HD. Also, it's a good idea to set up your internal HD so you have XP on the C: partition, other programs on a second (D:) partition and your data files somewhere else. BTW, what do you do for your data backup? Different strokes for different folks but, I have my internal 300 GIG HD with 4 partitions (XP on C:, Programs on D:, data on E: and my music collection on F:). Once a week I Ghost that HD to my external 300 GIG USB drive. And then I sleep peacefully. Kerogh --- In [email protected], Theresa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Good morning :-). > > I do not understand something. I have a My Book external drive > connected to my computer by a USB cable. I understood that the > computer would see this as another drive, and it does. Because of > past computer difficulties, I installed Eudora and Opera and > ScreenPaver on this drive, along with much of my data. ScreenPaver > works just fine. > > However, I ended up moving Eudora to the C: drive because of > attachment issues, and am seriously considering moving Opera back to > completely on C: and F: drives. The last time I reinstalled Opera, I > put my preferences on the My Book drive, and everything else on C: > . Quite often now, Opera will quit trying to access the Internet, > even though I am connected. If I request a page, it simply sits > there, and only the time racks up. When I check my connection, it is > fine. ( I have dialup, but doubt that is the problem.) Of course > this is highly annoying at best, especially since Opera is my main > browser, and I usually have several pages and windows open. The only > way to correct the problem is to exit Opera completely, wait 30 > seconds to a minute at minimum (so I don't get the error message that > Opera is already in use by someone else), and restart it. > > It's possible that some of the problem is my internet connection, > but usually I can work with IE 6 and get a response most of the > time. But logging off and relogging onto the Internet does not > change things. I did not think that using an external hard drive > would make so much of a difference. Is it the length of time that > the information takes to get from the drive to the CPU and vice versa? > > Thanks > Theresa > > Things I am not sure, but you might need: I am running Windows XP > Home on an T6536 emachine with an AMD 64. About once a day the > computer reboots itself, the usual error message is that a device > driver was incompatible. About half the time Windows does not know > what the error was caused by, the other half it says the problem is > with Opera. I have 916848K physical memory, but I do have Zone, > Trend Micro for antivirus, and some antispyware/malware programs in > memory. Right now I am running Eudora, Word, OE, IE, Adobe Photoshop > Elements, Opera, task manager and Windows Explorer, with about 41448K > maximum left. > > > > > > > Gentlemen, I believe we have much to discuss. > (Robert Lansing as Control, the Equalizer, "Trial By Ordeal" ) > If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! 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