Macromedia DW 8 on Win 10 [CS2 is dead]

[fredh150917]

Any recommendations for the repair or replacement of Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 on a Windows 10 OS?  The program opens, but it immediately shuts down when trying to open a page not available on the DW opening page, calling a file, try linking to a file, etc.

[fredh150917]

Thanks for your input,  I did what you recommended, but it didn't work.  There was no difference.  The DW8 software worked in Windows 8.1, but something was different with Windows 10.

[Ken_Binney]

Have you considered configuring your machine for dual operating systems?

You could then boot your machine into either Windows 8.1 or 10, depending on whether or not you needed to use your DW8 (or any other legacy software that won't run on Win10).

http://www.howtogeek.com/197647/how-to-dual-boot-windows-10-with-windows-7-or-8/

Hope that helps.

[larryk13383866]

I had every issue in this thread and then solved.

Rather than open dreamweaver and then open the file, I navigated to the file, right clicked and selected "open with" dreamweaver.

I now have no problems.

This crap is a HUGE time waster for us regular people just trying to get some work done.

[BenPleysier]

This crap is a HUGE time waster for us regular people just trying to get some work done.

It's your choice. I have no problems using the latest version of Dreamweaver that has been designed to work on the latest version of the Windows OS.

[barryk9]

Following an in-place upgrade of Windows 7 Pro 64 bit to Windows 10 I found that Dreamweaver 8 stalled and then quit when initialising.  After trying various things suggested on different forums I finally was at the point of giving up when I decided to try deleting the Site Cache files, as I had read that that could cause problems with other newer versions of Dreamweaver.  This was the answer.  Dreamweaver attempted to rebuild the cache but I stopped it as it was taking too long - one of the site files was probably corrupted.  After a re-boot everything loaded normally. 🙂  I had previously reinstalled it to its own folder in the root directory of my C drive, together with the 8.0.2 patch, but this didn't make any difference, so that probably isn't necessary.

[Nancy OShea]

 It's 2020 now, not 2015.  The aging Creative Suite 1, 2 and 3 activation servers were decommissioned years ago!  It's impossible to activate the products beyond their trial period. 

And let's not forget that DW8 is a relic.  The software is so outdated it doesn't understand much less write modern, web-compliant code.  I can't think of a single reason to be interested in it except perhaps as an historical curiosity.   It has no place in modern / responsive web developerment.

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Beware of fake Adobe reps offering to sell you software or take control of your computer.  It's a scam!  Run away!

[barryk9]

As I said, I did an in-place upgradeto Windows 10 so I didn't need to re-activate DW8.

Yes it is long in the tooth now, and I don't use it for writing new code, but it is useful for maintaining old sites.