Computer freezes for a few minutes after minimizing/closing Photoshop/InDesign

Hello,
So I've had this problem since I got the computer, but it has gotten much worse recently. After I work in photoshop and indesign for a few hours, I minimize both programs and the computer freezes for a good 4 or 5 minutes, even my winamp music player starts skipping. I'm thinking its the RAM that needs time to dump out the data and its doing it very slow.
I have:
Q8200 2.33 ghz overclocked at 2.51
8BG of RAM
ATI EAH4850 512MB
I'm thinking it might the overclocking or the Not so high quality of RAM sticks. please let me know of any other suggestions.
Thank you

Thank you for the response. I disabled the overclocking and unchecked Export Clipboard. It seems to be a bit faster, but I haven't tried it extensively yet. I'm running XP x64, if that makes any difference.

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