same problem here. DW 2017 is slow like snail. i use home nas server and when DW start, every my connection to local nas slows down. my solution. I do not even know what it is "node" and what it is used in DW (evented i/o for v8 javascript... two processes in task manager). i just disabled this with rename folder method. simply rename folder "node" in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2017 to "node_disabled". and viola. DW is now like rocket! have fun and much comfortable programing like me EDIT: ok, I experimented a bit. probably is not well forbid the functionality of the node. i renamed folder back to "node" and then set for node.exe file "run as administrator" (right click on the node.exe > properties > compatibility > run this program as an administrator) now is DW still fast and node is not disabled. i use dell inspiron 13 (7359), i7, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd, win10 EDIT2: sorry. last time, i promise I've found that the node is used for the javascript linting. maybe for something else too, but don't know. when i set node.exe to run as admin, the node is not start with DW and JS linting not working. later I found out what the problem is. In my case, the problem is the path to the project. as i wrote, my projects is stored on local server (nas). I have created a network drive with letter W. then in project i define path to project with W://web/site.com/ (for example). but this is wrong. i must path defined as \\nas\site.com\ (nas is name of my server, or i can use server IP \\192.168.1.100\site.com\, It does not matter). then everything is in perfect order and DW work fast with node.exe running and js linting too.
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