Photoshop cs5 Save as slow down

Hi I have been experiencing a ptoblem in Photoshop Cs5 relating to Save As.
My workflow is as follows. I import and work on my pictures using Lightroom 3.2, then if I want further editing - I use Photshop.
I have a dual processor Xeon workstation that can cope with bot apps and more no problems and they have both been working together for the last couple of months. I am running 64 bit windows 7 and photoshop with 8gb RAM
However recently when I have editing a picture and go to Save as, the dialog box hangs for ages. The Hard disk goes bananas for a prolonged period of time and then finally the save as dialog opens and I can save, It appears to only do this the first few times I open different files then its ok. There doesnt seem to be a pattern to it. But the wait before the dialogue box opens depends on the file size. The bigger the file size the longer the wait.
Has anyone else experienced this problem and perhaps could offer some advice or guidance.
many thanks
Neil

When saving a file using 'Save As' I can no longer "window" the screen image, it always opens "full-screen" and can't be resized.
Does that mean that it did work, but now does not?
If it used to work, then something has changed. The trick is to find out what it was.
First thing that I check, whenever I have a GUI display issue, is whether there is an update for my video adapter's driver. PS interfaces more closely with the video driver, than some other programs. Simple things, such as OS updates, can render a video driver obsolete, and can cause all sorts of issues. What make/model card do you have? What is the number/date of your installed video driver?
Hope that it is as simple as going to the ATI/AMD, or nVidia Web site, and downloading, then installing a new driver.
Good luck,
Hunt

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