Bootcamp and Win7 lagging?

Hi
I'm the lucky owner of a 2012 MacBook Pro 15 2,4GHz Intel CPU, 16Gb 1333MHz RAM and the 1Gb ATI HD6770M graphics card.
Originally it had the Toshiba 128Gb SSD disk where I was running bootcamp with OS X Lion 10.7 and Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit no problems at all...
Now I have installed a Corsair Neutron GTX 480Gb SSD and OS X is running perfect, however, I can't get Windows 7 to work anymore
Installation is fine and it actually runs very quickly, except when I e.g. click the start menu, it then freeze for 4-5 sec before anything happens...
What can be wrong? (And yes, I actually need Win7 for my engineering classes )

First read the appropriate instructions and print a copy for reference when installing Windows.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
I have installed Windows XP, Vista, and 7 on a MacBook and two separate MacBook Pros. I had no problems with installation. Please do yourself a favor after you have installed BootCamp/Windows and make a backup with Winclone or Paragon HDM 12. Search for these programs on this community for more discussion.

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