Photoshop and vista

Hi,
I've found similar problems with Vista and CS3/4, mine is with Photoshop CS with Vista and I didn't find the right solution yet :
- With the Vista Aero theme selected, somme Aero effects are disturbing to work on photoshop : moving layers is slowered (like the windows of the explorer), it's not much but disturbing for work.
- If I select the Vista Basic theme I don't have this slowing layers issue but then I have the big lag/delay problem when painting with the brush (impossible to work).
- So logically I tried to select the Aero Theme + deactivate some of the bothering Aero options (Enable deskstop composition/animate windows). But when I do so Vista in fact automatically select the Vista Basic Theme, so I have the lag problem with brush again...
It seems a bit odd not to be able to work with protoshop properly on Vista, some of you may have a solution to this ?
Or is it back to XP and that's it ?
Many thanks in advance,

uuummm..it should be OK with those specs.
I would reset Areo back to default for now and try it in XP compatibility mode.
And have a fiddle with the preference. ( don't forget to close CS and reopen to enable the changes).
Lower the History states to 10 or 15.
Up the ram usage to 80% - you might have tweak this abit
Move the cache up and down to see if that makes a difference.
Place a scratch disk on drive 2.
Also, if it's a new machine there is usually an initial period when Vista is indexing, prefetching, etc which can slow disk access temporarily.
What size images and brushes are you using?......try the brushes with smoothing and other options disabled and see if that helps.

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