If it's any help or makes any difference.... though I doubt it does.... my external drive I use solely for downloading limewire files to.
Is there some *major* difference somewhere between downloading to your primary hard drive, as opposed to an external one....?

Stating the obvious - I do find that having an external hard drive permanently plugged in seems to majorly affect the workings of my pc. I also *get* the fact that Limewire slows everything down.... but how or why should this have anything to do with my *shared* files?