I didn't know you could put them on an external drive. So, seeing as I'm not all that computer savvy, will I have to delete all the bigfish stuff off my laptop hardrive and then re-download to my external? Is there any slowdowns in the games themselves off the external? I'm not sure of the exact process, is there a tutorial or something on bigfish itself?

Here is what I did. I can simply go to the game file, drag and drop it to my external drive. To check this out for someone on another forum, I then uninstalled the game from my C:/ drive and ran CCleaner on both Windows and the registry to get rid of any traces of the game. Then I dragged and dropped the BFG file back to my C:/ drive and launched as usual. No issues at all.

I did not try playing directly from the external hard drive.

OK, so I just leave the game manager on my computer and copy the game folders onto my external drive. Then delete the games from my computer which should drop my usage to about 20% and then copy the folders back onto my computer when I want to play them? I know I'm probably paraphrasing what you said but I want to make sure I understand. Will the game automatically show up in the game manager if I do it that way?

I did it with one of my games exactly as you say just to see what would happen. I did the "trial" with one of the smaller downloads so if I would have to redownload, it wouldn't be a huge one. But when I dragged and dropped the file from the exterior drive back into the Program Files (x86) file (which is where Windows 7 puts them), I double clicked on the execution file and the game opened right up. After I played for a bit, I closed the game and the game manager appeared as usual.

Try it first with one of your smaller games and see how it goes.

You may be able to play them right from the exterior drive too, like MaG does. I don't know if the game manager needs to know where it is. I don't use the game manager, but rather shortcut icons to play my BF games.

Thanks everyone! I think I'm going to try Draclvr's idea of transferring my bigfish games to my external drive. Perhaps that will help the sluggishness and then I won't have to invest in another laptop or processor right away!