CS3 curser lag

I've been trying the trial of CS3, and I'm encountering major performance issues which I can't fathom.
At first I tried it on my old machine, which was good for its time, but perhaps getting a little dated.
I built a new computer just last week, which is very powerful (Intel Core 2 Duo E8400; GeIL 4GB 1066MHz memory; Nvidia GTX 260) and CS3 performance is even worse than it was on my old machine.
Simply moving the mouse around on screen results in horrendous lag (the screen flashes each time this happens) to the point where it's so frustrating to use that I close the program. It generally runs fine; it opens and loads files and does its thing without any problems, and I've certainly noticed a big increase in performance when opening massive files, but moving the actual curser around the screen is an absolute nightmare, which results in general use being a nightmare. Zooming in and out with the scroll-wheel makes the whole screen flash too.
I haven't got a clue what's causing this, as people I know who use CS3 haven't encountered the problem. CS2 runs like a dream.
The OS I was using on my old machine was XP (32 bit), while I'm now using Vista 64.

Oh wow, turning Aero on actually fixed it, I don't believe it.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
Haha, oh well, you've solved my problem, thank you!
Any idea why turning Aero off caused that problem? The reason I turned it off in the first place (besides the fact that it's ugly) is that it would increase performance, not hurt it.

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I've stated the Network Printer did not apply to me,
thanks a lot still.
ID.Awe
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- and indexing was stopped before I made this post
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