Slow Performance InDesign CS6

Windows 7 SP1 64 Bit Professional
Adobe InDesign CS6 version 8.0
12 GB Ram
128 GB SSD
Whenever I try to change from the arrow to the text tool, I have to wait several seconds for the program to make the switch. On other machines, it's instantaneous. Whenever I try to scroll through pages, or click on a text box, or switch the top ribbon from character to paragraph mode...all these seemingly simple commands take several long seconds for the program to respond. By several, I mean like 15 or 20.
I have tried turning off the "pre flight" which seems to help but only a little bit.
What would next steps be to trying to resolve the issue other then possibly upgrading to CC?

The ID has been patched to 8.0.2.
The preferences have been trashed today, following the manual method of renaming the two files used for preferences.
Correction: 390 Free space out of 475 GB SSD
I will see how the performance is after trashing the preferences.
Thank you for the troubleshooting steps.

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