Photoshop CS4 slow on my idea centre a600

Hi. i have with me an IdeaCentre A600, 1gb ram, ati 3560.
However, photoshop CS4 is laggy with this desktop.
It is fast in loading images and all.. however, cropping is lagging (when highlighting the area i want to crop), adding text etc.
any idea how to overcome? i read in adobe's forum, and they recommend updating graphic driver, and i am halfway downloading the driver.
besides the driver, any other things that may affect the performance?
Im on Windows Vista, and CS3 works fine on the system.

hi.. anyone experiancing the same problem?
I have just upgraded my video driver.. but still the same.

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