As Nancy says if you are using the server behaviors you'll need to make sure you have the 8.0.2 update installed, as the 8.0 release generated server side code that had a nasty SQL Injection vulnerability. Also you'll really need to install the HTML5/CSS3 extension to bring it a bit more up to date. Its very old though and the server behaviors only support old versions of PHP and the old MySQL extension, I don't recommend you use for new projects. ...
But quite honestly, Dreamweaver 8 is ancient. If you're building modern websites, you really need a modern code editor. At least, one that understands HTML5 and CSS. I would suggest Brackets but I don't think it will run on XP. You need at least Windows 7 with service pack 1.
Wow, this is a blast from the past: Dreamweaver 8 on an XP machine.
Having said that (after recovering), you will need to supply more informmation like, have you had it working before, and can you show us the crash report?
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