I have a 2tb wd my book essential hooked up via usb to my computer which has a quad core, 4g ram, xp pro and usually runs pretty fast btw. The first thing I did was to update the firmware and software for the my book before even moving anything over, i disabled the virtual cd, still not clear on what that does, but when i restart the pc the program starts up (smartware) and seems to slow everything down on the pc in general.
Are there any settings I can change or confirm here to help fix this?
The way things are slowing down its almost useless to have the thing running.
Can I remove all the wd software from my 2tb my book essential? The software seems very bloat/heavy on the pc’s resources and I just don’t like it, can I somehow just dump everything on it and make it into a standard drive that I can use a free software sync program vs wd’s stuff?
I am sorta a newbie so any step by step as to how to do this is greatly appreciated.
I did update the firmware and software for the unit but it didn’t help, just ■■■■■ resources and makes the computer SLOOOOOWWWWWWWW.
