Lightroom respons slows down.

Hi there,
When I edit my RAW files and adjust any of the sliders, (i.e. contrast, white balance, vibrace, etc.) it takes some time before the adjustment actually takes place. There's a liitle delay sort of. Very annoying when finetuning whitebalance or saturation.
My computer should be capable of running smoothly. I reinstalled my PC (clean install) and lightroom. And the problem was gone, it ran ver smooth and responsive, but now it drags again.
What could this be? I've tried turning my virusscanner off (when offline ofcourse) but it didnt help,
My specs;
- i5 520m
- 4G RAM
- Geforce 330
This should be sufficient. Actually it is, as the problems seem to be gone after clean install.
Any help is much appreciated.

What version of LR are you running?  If not 3.3, or 3.4rc1, you should upgrade as quite a number of repsonce problems in 3.0-3.2 were fixed in 3.3.
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