this was very timely and helpful. I've been fighting this problem since the early days of windows 7 beta testing - thank you!

Cybrett, thanks for such a good article. I have a small questions for you regarding this part here:

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The patch will begin to install. During the install you may be asked for the CD because it will look for the Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.msi file.
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I don't have the CD of it as I have the installer on Adobe's website. I will need to download the installer and install it on the system. Now, your step as quoted above requires .msi file, is this still can be achieved using a .exe installer from adobe's website and not using any CD?

I will be upgrading to Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, therefore:
- Just to confirm, DW 8 will work on Windows 7 64 bit, won't it?
- Do I need Windows 7 professional version for this DW 8 to work (because of the xp mode) .. or do you think it's totally unnecessary to have that?

Thanks a lot for the help.

Thanks a ton for the information Cybrett. I don't have windows 7 but I do have Vista 64bit. I am not that experienced in the prompt, but I had saved the patch into my windows/system32 folder and then ran the prompt. It didn't tell me to use the install cd at all and seems to be working beautifully.

You rock as I have been dealing with this for nearly 6 months!

Hi CyBrett. Finally got the patch to load and complete. **Had to reboot on 64bit** to make it work. Even so, Dreamweaver highly unstable when adding Sites. Managed to get 1 site locked in then it just crashed again. Editing individual pages seems ok. However, DW seems not to like going deep through directories (>3 levels) to map sites. I am perservering - mainly because I have many sites where I use Libraries, and OpenSource Kompozer doesn't recognise DW's Library system - so I have to make DW8 work. Has anybody else got the Site Manager problem? Found a fix?

Now 2 days later - still having problems and seem to be getting worse. Now can't add any more sites. This is a serious incompatibility problem. The Macromedia suite is installed in the Program Files (x86) directory.

Is Adobe doing nothing for DW support on Win 7?

Hi,

There is an identified issue with Office 2007 and Windows Vista and Windows 7.

"Dreamweaver 8 may crash when it performs file browsing actions on Microsoft Windows Vista. Some examples include:

• Using File > Open to browse the hard drive to open a file.
• Inserting an image and using the file browser to select the image.
• Creating a hyperlink and using the file browser to select the target file.
• Creating a site definition and using the file browser to select the local root folder or remote folder.

Additional reported behavior includes:

• Crash occurs when a file browsing dialog appears.
• Crash occurs when browsing two or more folders away.
• Crash occurs after inserting four images.
• Crash occurs when you leave the file browsing dialog box open for a period of time. "

The solution is documented at Adobe: Dreamweaver 8 crashes while browsing files (Windows Vista). There is a conflict between Dreamweaver 8 and the Groove component of Microsoft Office 2007 on Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows 7. I removed Groove and Dreamweaver now works.

can you help please.

I recently purchased a new pc (windows 7) and loaded Dreamweaver 8 but for some reason when i attempt to run the program it will not start - ive gone through the threads on this forum and tried the methods suggested but it still wont work - any ideas please.

thank you.

Thanks for the solution. I had installed Windows7 weeks ago and never tried to use Dreamweaver8 since then -- of course, when I urgently needed it, it wouldn't work. Now it works.

All program need to "Run As Admin"?
im kinda lazy if always like that

Disable ur UAC for more easy,all program are in ur Admin control.No need "Run As Admin" anymore

Go to Control Panel>In "Search Control Panel" type "UAC"
Action Center will be appear,then "Change User Account Control settings" and put it "Never Notify".Then ur done