Illustrator slow

Hi,
I run Illustrator CS4 on VISTA.
Illustrator is very slow.
Ex. I select a shape and it take a couple of second before I see the element selected. (by the way, the file isn't heavy)
Also, when using keypad function (Ex. Copy, paste) I have to repeat the keypad function more then once before it works.
I reset my preferences and it hasn't corrected the problem.
Does anyone have an idea of what could be the problem?
Thanks

This might help;-
kb2.adobe.com/cps/832/cpsid_83296.html

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