Slow Photoshop CS3 Performance (Win7 32bit)

I recently upgraded from Windows XP Pro to Windows 7 32-bit, and reinstalled Photoshop CS3, but now it's very slow, unlike back with XP. Here are my system specs and Performance preferences:
   Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Tyan Computer Corporation
       System Model: S2668 Tiger i7505
               BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0
          Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.1GHz
             Memory: 4096MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3072MB RAM
          Page File: 2548MB used, 3589MB available
Performance:
Memory Usage
Available RAM: 1667 MB
Ideal Range: 917-1200 MB
Let Photoshop Use: 1667 MB (100%)
Scratch Disks
C:\ 102.65GB Free Space
History & Cache
History States: 75
Cache Levels: 6
GPU Settings
Enable 3D Acceleration (on)
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Drop the 100 percent for photoshop use to 60 percent. At 100 percent none of your other software that runs in the background can breathe. In other words your starving your computer of RAM.
Also change your virtual memory to a custom size so it will not expand and contract and fight for the same scratch space.
Ideal is to have 2 internal hard drives. C drive will have virtual memory on it and the other internal hard drive will be for scratch. If you have 2 hard drives you get rid of the problem of the same read write head trying to write to two different areas at the same time and slowing down photoshop.

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