Poser 7 runs well on my Pentium 4m 1.6 GHz laptop, so your machine is more than adequate.

One  thing to check is to make sure your Poser render settings aren't set to high.

Another is to look at what else is running.  I would run Spybot S&D to  see if there is something else occupying the CPU .  It's free from here:

http://www.safer-networking.org/index2.html

Also, if it is slow to boot as well, there may be unneeded programs running at startup.  You can see which are running using msconfig (from your Start menu select Run, and type in msconfig )

You can read more about startup items here:

http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

Good Luck!

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