My CS3 is sick?

I have been using my CS3 for over a year. It does seem to be getting slower and slower on startup, but now... all of a sudden, it is freezing up when opening PS files. Not all PS files, just intermittent. It sits with the bar showing that is is loading, and then when I click.. it goes not responding. I at first thought that somehow the file got corrupt, and remade it. It my let me reopen the file once, I add to it, ctl S to save it.... and then when I go back to open it again.. it won't let me. I am using Windows Vista and again, have been for over a year with no problems. I haven't installed any new software or hardware. Can someone please help! Thanks in advance for your time....

I would go the simple route first.
Is your anti virus scanning your pictures as you work? That could be slowing things down.
Go into msconfig and turn off the start up items. One of these might be conflicting.
Resources might be scheduled to run at the same time too.
You might have malware too slowing things up. This link is for Spybot Search and Destroy. It will find a lot of crapware that windows defender misses.
http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html
Use CCleaner to clean up your hard drive: It is free and works great.
http://www.ccleaner.com/
Defrag the hard drive: I use this and turned off the windows one. It organizes files better and it is free.
http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html?Str=download

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