Not Responding error message

[Cavediver]

While working in Dreamweaver I continually get a message at the top of the screen "Not Responding" -- after a few seconds it responds and I can work, then it happens again. This causes the tempo of my work to be interrupted over and over, it is annoying.

Is there any fix? The only articles I see about this in a search are from 2012. 

[Paul-M]

If you have the most recent version, roll back to the previosu version.

Other things you can do:

disable site cache in site settings

if you're using GIT make sure you don't have a lot of staged files it kills perfomance for some reason

stay away from live view unless it's essential to your workflow

[Nancy OShea]

Does your local site folder reside on your primary hard drive and not a networked or cloud drive like Dropbox, etc...?

Turn off energy saving Sleep Mode from your operating system's settings.  Sleep mode is nothing but trouble. 

[Cavediver · Accepted solution]

Thank you all for your suggestions. I ended up with Dreamweaver Tech support uninstalling/reinstalling Dreamweaver and it works good now. They were able to login to my machine and do the work while I watched. 5-Stars on that support.