My Standard toolbar has disappeared

[AdrianLe]

Not only has my Standard toolbar (with the usual Save, Open, etc functions) disappeared from DW8, but I can't seem to restore it.. no method of going to re-select the Standard toolbar works.. it's completely greyed out everywhere. What happened???

[pziecina]

Hi

Have you tried right clicking on the toolbar that opens with the document (the one with code / split / design buttons on it), and selecting the standard toolbar there?

PZ

[AdrianLe]

Yes, that's one of the methods I tried.. I can see "standard toolbar" as an option, but it's completely greyed out.

[JackMcNac]

What worked for me in Dreamweaver 8 under Vista was:

1. Log in as an administrator.

2. Right-click the Dreamweaver shortcut on the desktop and select "Run as administrator."

3. Create a new document with "File -> New".

4. If the document opens maximized, unmaximize it. This will give the gray dock above the document more space.

5. Right-click on the dock. The selections for the Standard and Document toolbars are no longer grayed out.

It might also work just to select View - Toolbars.

After you re-enable the toolbars under the administrator account, log in to your ordinary user account and launch Dreamweaver normally. The selections for the Standard and Document menus should no longer be grayed out.

I think what is happening is, Dreamweaver stores some of the configuration info for the Standard and Document toolbars under the "Program Files" heirarchy. Your ordinary user account doesn't have write access to "Program Files," which is why the selections are grayed out. Under Vista, even when you are logged in as an administrator you aren't really an administrator and still don't have write access to "Program Files," unless you launch the program by right-clicking on it and selecting "Run as administrator."

[BI30]

The solution provided did not work for me.

If it matters, I'm using Win7_x64. Running DW8 as Admin doesn't help. "Standard" is still grayed out as an option and can not be added.

I'm hoping to find a third-party "plugin"/extension/etc that can do the same thing. Anyone know of one?

[370H55V]

Window -> Workspace Layout -> Default

That should be for DW8.  It's been years since I used 8, but I think that's correct.

[BI30]

Thanks for the reply, but that didn't work either.

It DID however reset/resort my existing layout and toolbars and switch me from "split code/design" view to simple design view only. Took me a few minutes to put it all back.

[370H55V]

When you change the workspace, if you right click on one of the toolbars that ARE visible and the menu pops out, is Standard checked?

[BI30]

When you change the workspace, if you right click on one of the toolbars that ARE visible and the menu pops out, is Standard checked?

No. Unchecked and grayed out.

I only installed DW8 yesterday (moved from XP), so it is not disabled due to any settings/changes made over time.

I've tried running as Admin, tried XP compatibility Mode, and both combined. I'm stumped.

[JackMcNac]

If you are getting this on a clean install of Dreamweaver, that really is the ultimate evil. Did you perhaps also install any third-party extensions at the same time?

I think it is the nature of a program bug that sometimes a thing that fixes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. That is what happened to me with the "run as Administrator" trick. The Standard toolbar disappeared again after I installed an extension, and the grayed-out syndrome returned. When I tried launching Dreamweaver again using "run as Administrator," this time it didn't work -- the grayed-out thing was still happening.

In my case, what triggered it this second time was installing an extension that placed its toolbar right where the Standard toolbar goes. Somehow that extension managed to disable the Standard toolbar, and even moving that extension's toolbar to a different location didn't help. Disabling and uninstalling the extension also didn't fix it.

It is possible that following the instructions for resetting the configuration at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/839/cpsid_83912.html would work, but the good news, in my case, is that I don't have to. That is because even though the toolbars are missing and can't be re-enabled for my administrator login, they aren't missing for my ordinary user login, which is the one I use to do all my work. I never enabled the offending extension in the instance of Dreamweaver for my ordinary user login, so the settings for that user account never got messed up.

The only other thing I can offer is that I think I was wrong about extensions being able to rewrite the files in the "\Program Files\" hierarchy. I checked in there after this recurrence of the problem, and the date stamps on those files indicated they hadn't been changed. So the offending extension that turned off the toolbars in the first place must have done it by writing into either the system registry or into the per-user settings in the \\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\ hierarchy. That is why I think the instructions on that page for resetting the configuration might work for my administrator login this time, even though they didn't work for me before.

[BI30]

JackMcNac wrote:

If you are getting this on a clean install of Dreamweaver, that really is the ultimate evil. Did you perhaps also install any third-party extensions at the same time?

Thanks for the reply, but the "full reset" procedure at that link didn't work either. Nor do I have any third-party extensions. It's a clean install (even moreso now that I've reset my config twice), installed on my Win7_x64 machine so I can work on some old files I created using DW8 years ago.

I suspect the reason I can't enable the "standard toolbar" has something to do with Win7's Draoonian security "features" preventing the toolbars from installing (The "Document", "Standard" and "Coding" toolbar options are all disabled. Only "Insert" and "Style Rendering" are accessible.)

I can still Save from the File menu, or Right-clicking the tab of the currently opened file and select "Save" from there, so it's not a huge deal. Just annoying.

Thx.

(PS: If anyone using DW8 under Win7 is reading this, let me know if you do/don't have this problem.)

[JackMcNac]

The only other thing that I would try is to reinstall it outside the "Program Files" directory. I have a "c:\Programs" directory on my machine and install stuff in there to bypass the Windows security lunacy.

[BI30]

JackMcNac wrote:.

The only other thing that I would try is to reinstall it outside the "Program Files" directory. I have a "c:\Programs" directory on my machine and install stuff in there to bypass the Windows security lunacy.

Not a bad idea. I've actually done something similar with some other "key" directories, but the Security on the "Program Files" folder is more valuable than the potential for disaster using an alternate insecure "Programs" directory.

Despite all the security in Win7, I was actually hit with the mother of all Trojans (even WITH antivirus software installed) just three days after installing Win7 on a clean system... (plus Avira Antivirus)... believing (falsely) that Windows' new security features would never allow any program to make changes to my security settings, delete system files, or delete my Restore Points. Yah, right! Yet something did (and I never found out what). I ended up having to reformat and reinstall (unlike XP, there is NO way to fix modified security permissions at the Admin level in Win7. Once that happens, you're toast.)

No OS should EVER allow a program to modify/edit/delete things (like your Restore Points) for ANY reason. Live and learn.

[Nancy OShea]

I only installed DW8 yesterday...

And did you install this too?

Dreamweaver 8.0.2 Updater

http://www.adobe.com/support/dreamweaver/downloads_updaters.html#dw8

Nancy O.
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[BI30]

Nancy O. wrote:

And did you install this too?

Dreamweaver 8.0.2 Updater

No, not yet. Since it is mainly to fix Server and Flash issues, I really don't think I need it, but may install it anyway.

Thanks for the link.

[mdy12 · Accepted solution]

I know this is an old subject, but I'm posting what worked for me for those still using version 8. I had the exact same problem and I had to edit a registry setting to get it to work. For the record, I'm using Windows 7.

First, make sure Dreamweaver isn't running.

In the registry editor, navigate to the following location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\FloaterStates\Toolbars3\Settings1

Look for the string values starting with ToolbarID. Find the one that has a data value of "Standard_Toolbar" and note what the array number is on the string value name (i.e. ToolbarID0 where 0 is the array number.) Mine was 0. Now find the DWord value starting with Visibilityn where n is the array number. For my values, this was Visibility0. Set its data value to 1.

Now start Dreamweaver and open a file so it shows in the editor. See if the toolbar is showing now. Note that the option to show the toolbar will still be grayed out, but it will actually show. If it still doesn't show (like in my instance), close out Dreamweaver and re-open. If not showing still, close the app and repeat the procedure of editing the Visibility DWord by setting it to 0, saving it, and resetting it back to 1. Refresh the registry using F5, then reopen Dreamweaver. Hope this works for you.

Thanks,

Micheal

[BI30]

Hey MDY12, hey cool. That works.

Thanks for the reply.

[AyonBax*]

MDY12y

Thank you very much. I had the same problem which only started after I reinstalled DW8. I was having some frequent crashes, so I decided to uninstall and and then reinstall. That was when I noticed that I could not enable the Document,Standard, or Coding menu items, because they were all greyed out. I tried all the things Bl30 tried but to no avail. However, I found success in your post. I had DW8 running on another PC (same Windows 7/64), therefore, I just exported Toolbars3 from the working DW8 registry entry and copied it to the PC with the faulty DW8. I then deleted the Toolbars3 registry there, and executed the copied file I exported from the other PC.

They are still greyed out but they are all there nevertheless, and working.

Big thank you!

[Jean Paul Francois]

View > Toolbars(all the way at bottom) > Document/Standard