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Anonymous
March 22, 2011
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Cold Fusion Studio in Windows 7

  • March 22, 2011
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I thought this might be useful to some people, as I had this issue and spent hours trying to figure out a solution, and it seems several people posted in forums about something similar.

I had a windows 2000 machine at work for 8 years or so, and used CF Studio 5 as my editor, and loved using it.  They finally upgraded my computer, giving me a new windows 7 machine.  The problem was, when I tried installing CF Studio 5 (and 4.5), after installation, it would error out.

I tried downloading CF Builder and Eclipse, but both programs were missing features that CF Studio has that I liked using (Extended Find, easy to use snippetts, etc), so I was not happy, and searched online for a way to install my trusted CF Studio.  Finally, I found a way.

  • Install CF Studio as normal, but instead of running the program normally
  • right click the executable, and select "Troubleshoot Compatibility"
  • Click the Troubleshoot Program option
  • Check the box stating "The program worked in earlier versions of Windows but won't install or run now
  • In my case, I chose Windows 2000
  • Start the program

CF Studio then worked great.  The only issue is I couldn't pin it to the taskbar, but I'll take it.

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    TheCoolLion
    Participant
    August 23, 2011

    Thnx, I was running cfstudio inside a virtual XP machine, now I can just run it

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    gdemaria
    Inspiring
    August 17, 2011

    Thanks you Scott!   You were very right my friend - there are others out there who would very much appreciate your post!   CFstudio is fast, easy and so efficient, love it and now thanks to you I can finally start using my new computer that I bought 6 months ago and haven't been able to use because it didn't run CFStudio !

    WolfShade
    WolfShade
    Legend
    March 22, 2011

    Nothing against CF Studio 5, as I used it, myself, when it first came out.

    But it's way overdue for being replaced.  I've never tried CF Builder (and with what Adobe is asking for the price, I never will), and didn't like Eclipse.  However, DreamWeaver CS3 and CS5 are both feature rich (including extended find and snippets), and work without extra effort in modern Windows environments.

    And, remember, that just because Win7 has this "troubleshoot compatibility" mode does not guarantee that it will be in future releases, or that it will work with CF Studio 5 in the future.

    Just food for thought.

    ^_^

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    Anonymous
    March 22, 2011

    I understand, but I liked CFS much better than the more common recommendations of CFB and Eclipse...I had also seen many people lamenting the inability to use CFS 5, so I just thought I'd post about my experience, as I found no solutions for those of us who prefer CF5.

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