How to move all of itunes onto external hard drive?

Right now, I have my music library connected to iTunes on an external hard drive. iTunes is installed on my desktop computer. What I'd like to do is have iTunes wholly on my external hard drive so I could move it back and forth between a laptop and my desktop. I edit a lot of tracks and to make sure the edits carry over, I'd just like it all on the external hard drive instead of downloading iTunes onto both devices. Also I add and delete different playlists with regularity.
Plus my iTunes runs sluggish (freezes for several seconds every time I click on something) and after a google search, one reason might be because my massive music collection is on a different drive, so I'm curious if keeping it all on the external would help.
I've searched around on how to do this, but all I find is how to move my library onto the external (its already there). I'm using Windows 7.

See Make a split library portable.
The larger the library and the more playlists you have the longer it takes to process each change in the database.
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