The wallet executable on windoze 7 64bit is terrible - generally slow & very unresponsive, it takes an age to sync & is pretty unusable while doing so - & not much better when it's finished. I see a few members have commented on this problem also - is the issue being looked into?
Thanks

Let me guess...synchronizing the blockchain on a Commodore 64 diskette ?
I'm on Win7 64 and the blockchain synchronized in a matter of minutes (from 0) and the wallet is working perfectly fine. Maybe because i'm on SSD ? Maybe because you have a shit 4500rpm laptop HDD ? Who knows...
Edit : Could it be that you are using an Asus Eee PC 900 ? Don't lie to me.