Running MO2 from an external drive?

[InDarkestNight]

I transferred all my mods to an external harddrive some time ago to free up space on my computer. For some reason, it didn't free up as much space as I wanted. For some reason, the resulting folder on the hardrive was far bigger than the loss on my computer's harddrive/ssd (I'm not sure which I have).

 

The main reason I wanted to do this, is because of my virus scan. It literally took an entire day to do, tying down my computer once a week is beyond annoying for obvious reasons.

 

Watching it, I'm starting to think the problem may be MO. Most of the files it scanning over are stuff in its mods folder, which obviously makes sense when you think about it (I have about 1,000 mods installed on the thing). This got me thinking; what if I moved MO2 to the external hardrive and run it from there? That would surely decrease the amount of time it takes my computer to scan. Yes, I'm so god damned sick of being unable to use my computer once a day every week that I'm willing to go to that extreme to try and stop this damned virus scanner from STOPPING ME FROM USING MY COMPUTER IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM.

 

I've been wanting to try out an ENB all day, but I cannot because Skyrim would barely run at all with this stupid virus scanner going. I was ready to start my new playthrough too, only for my computer to be locked down all day. Give you an idea, it started its scan around 4 in the afternoon. Its now 4 at night, and its ONLY 34% DONE. Seriously. Of course, it tends to accelerate near the end, which is why it never goes over 24 hours, but still. And yes, I had to set it to once a week just so I could use my computer at all (before I kept it set to once a day, seriously).

 

Why does this damned thing even tie down my computer like this? On my previous windows 7 machine I could easily run Skyrim while the scanner was going. I can't on this one though, despite the hardware being vastly superior. And yes, I've had it start its scan while I was in the middle of playing. The slowdown becomes apparent pretty damned fast. I've been tempted to just straight disable this thing half the time. Oh, and a bit of a tangent, it also won't let me run programs like asis or automatic variants! Seriously. I can tell it to ignore it, but for some reason it thinks every time I run either program its a brand new instance of that program, meaning it still blocks it. And yes, it does this with all java applications I download from the web, though strangely it disregards ones I make myself. And no, re-saving the program doesn't solve the problem for some strange reason.

 

Anyway, could I run MO2 on an external drive? I'm sorta new to these things so I'm not sure if I can even do that. The only other one I had required an application to utilize. This new one however basically works like a giant flash drive. I just copy-paste what I need to and from it. And yes, MO can load files from the drive no problem. Don't know about running a program from it though, especially since my skyrim folders would still be on my main computer. Then there's the issue of transferring everything over and making sure it runs.

 

Obviously, I'm at wit's end here. Its so painful sitting here watching my stupid computer scan knowing I can't do a damned thing with it. Oh, and the lag gets so bad near the end I CANT EVEN USE THE INTERNET. How, f*#@ing great.