InDesign CS4 painfully slow in W7 64 bit

Hi
I've been having real trouble with Adobe products since doing a clean install of W7 Pro 64 bit, which seems (perhaps) to be related to antivirus software. Simple stuff like importing a pic can take a minute - even if it is simple 1MB jpeg. Adjusting the tracking of a font in 1em increments allows me to do maybe 5 increments, then it has to stop for 30 seconds for a think, before continuing. It makes the software all but unusable. Interestingly, Quark 8 seems to work fine.....
Some actions are instant, some are really slow, there's no discernable pattern.
I started my new machine with Kaspersky 2010 AV, which made DW unusable, so I removed that and replaced it with Norton 360, which improved DW but knackered various other programmes including Indy, so I removed that and installed Microsoft Security Essentials. Initially everything ran ok, but over a few weeks Indy got slower and slower, until it is now unusable. So I really don't know whether it is the AV software doing this or not.
My PC is a Core i7 machine with 6 GB RAM and a new ATi graphics card & SSD, so it should be very fast. But in real world use, all adobe products are running much less well that they did on a three year old Intel Core Duo pc with 4 GB ram and Vista Ultimate 32 bit.
Has anyone out there had similar problems and is there a fix?
Here's hoping....
TP

Hi all
Thanks for all your contributions.
My W7 install was clean onto a brand new machine. The CS4 premium installer put everything where it wanted to, I didn't interfere. So PS is in the 64 bit apps, the rest are in 32 bit, all on the c drive which is a 250GB SSD. I only keep Windows and apps on that drive, so it has over 170GB free.
All docs are on my D drive, which is an internal SATA 2 drive, this includes all the images as well. That's a 1TB Hitachi 7200 rpm disk, so should be fine.
It is on an ethernet network, but it isn't accessing anything from within Indy over the network.
The weird thing is that initially after I installed MSE as my AV, everything seemed fine. But over the last 6 weeks it's just got progressively slower.
It's baffling......
TP

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