Fireworks CS3 in Windows 7

Hi
My Firworks CS3 installed all great and its mainly fine, but when I go to use any tool such as eraser and blurr etc where the cursor is not the standard mouse it is laggy, I believe this is due to the way fireworks is rendering the mouse cursor.
My photoshop CS2 is ok and other CS3 products are OK its just fireworks CS3. My old Firworks 8 was fine. I believe that it is something to do with the desktop composition as when I turn areo off, its perfect, but I need areo on.
Does anyone have any iedas?

Thank you pixlor, your solution has worked for me.
Exact same experience, Fireworks worked great until I used any of the bitmap tools and then the cursor was slow slow slow.
Running Windows 7 64-bit with Aero Theme
Fireworks CS3
I didn't change the compatibility mode, I just checked Disable desktop composition.
Now when I start Fireworks, I can see the Aero theme is turned off (it takes a second, both monitors go black and then come back on).
A minor inconvenience, and it saves me from having to upgrade to CS4. Sorry, I really can't see why other people are complaining about this. I'm also running Chrome and it restored to the aero theme perfectly fine.
Thanks again!
Message was edited by: PDAJunkee - sorry fixed typo

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... It is probably not a huge problem to fix for an Adobe engineer.
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for its
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I've tried Fireworks MX 2004, Fireworks 8 and Fireworks CS3
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applications. I have to wait around 10 seconds for it to respond
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cmakin wrote:
> I have now had to re-install Fireworks MX as this is the
only Fireworks
> application that responds with any speed.
>
> I've tried Fireworks MX 2004, Fireworks 8 and Fireworks
CS3 all 3 of which are
> painfully slow when swapping between applications. I
have to wait around 10
> seconds for it to respond before I can continue working.
>
> I've trawled the web for a solution to no avail.
> I'm running:
> Dell Dimension 8400
> Windows XP SP3
> 3.25GB of RAM
> Radeon X800 SE video card
>
> Any other app in the CS3 range is fine, I've tried
disabling anti-virus,
> removing services, changing compatibility modes and
numerous other things to no
> avail.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
>
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size files
are you working with?
You might want to give the new Fireworks Public Beta a try.
One focus
for the beta was to improve overall performance.
You can find the beta at labs.adobe.com
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Expert:.
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If you are unable/unwilling to allow the user to "run as administrator", there is another way.
A security concern could be that the file->open dialogue retains the given administrative rights of whatever account was used for "run as administrator". This can be exploited by the lesser user to gain access to folders otherwise restricted.
The most hassle free trick is to give the user full rights to the registry key, that Fireworks wants to write to.
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True.. it gives the user full access to that specific registry key, but that is at least much less dangerous than giving full access to the entire system.
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