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June 9, 2022
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Serial Number prompt Windows 11

  • June 9, 2022
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I have been using Dreamweaver Ultradev satisfactorily for years. Suddenly itis asking for the serial number (which I have) every time I open it. How do I stop this happening? Platform is Windoes 11.

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    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 9, 2022

    I'm sorry to be blunt but Ultradev is a relic from a bygone era.  It's no longer fit for modern use and should not be used in 2022. 

    • It has zero support for modern HTML, CSS & JavaScript code;
    • zero support for responsive web design;
    • I doubt it will open much less recognize LESS, SASS, SCSS, SVG or JSON files. 

    You really need a new code editor.  If not Dreamweaver CC (sold by subscription) then something other than what you have.

     

    CODE EDITORS:
    -- Adobe Dreamweaver CC - https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html
    -- Atom (free) - https://atom.io/
    -- Codespaces (free, browser-based) - https://github.com/features/codespaces
    -- Nova (Mac only, formerly called Coda) - https://nova.app/
    -- Pinegrow - https://pinegrow.com/
    -- Sublime Text - http://www.sublimetext.com/
    -- Visual Studio Code (free) - https://code.visualstudio.com/
    -- Wappler ~ Visual Web App Builder - https://wappler.io/

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    Participant
    June 10, 2022

    You are welcome to your opinion and, in principle, I agree with you. However, I am just an amateur 80 year old web site builder and am quite happy using DW Ultradev with a little additional CSS, Javascript and PHP.

    BenPleysier
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 10, 2022

    Congratulations sir, I take my hat off to you. You are one year my senior.

     

    May I make a sensible suggestion now that you have gotten yourself Windows 11? Get software that matches the operating system, it'll make you much more content. I speak from experience when I moved from Dreamweaver to Wappler, I couldn't be happier. For the price of a latte per week, I have one of the best web authoring programs on today's market. 

     

    To whet your appetite, have a look at the playlist that I created on YouTube.

     

     

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    Community Expert
    June 9, 2022

    You either need to run a virtual machine with Windows 98/2000 or it's time to upgrade DW from Ultradev. Just be thankful it ran as long as it did without crashing.

    BenPleysier
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 9, 2022

    My computer does not allow Windows 11 to be installed. It is too old. Conversely, a 22 year old product will not install on Windows 11. Think of it: 32 bits compared with 64 bits. It is impossible.

     

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    Participant
    June 9, 2022

    But it does run on Windows 11. Just asks for the serial number before opening!

    Jon Fritz
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    June 9, 2022

    I think your best bet is probably going to be to copy/paste the serial number, from a text file you keep on your desktop, to the program each time you fire it up.

    If it ever ran correctly under Windows 11, then it's very likely that an update to your OS has caused something to go haywire to UltraDev's serial number retention. 

    Adobe has never updated, sold or supported UltraDev in any way. That program came out 4 versions and 5 years prior to Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia.