My favourite code editor is Macromedia (not Adobe!) Dreamweaver 8 – it has coloured syntax highlighting, FTP, code hints, and an incredibly powerful search function (I especially like the ability to perform a search and replace on an entire local directory). I’ve recently switched to Windows 7 64 bit on my main desktop, and have found a simple solution to stop the random crashes that occur with Dreamweaver 8 on Windows 7.
- Get the 8.0.2 update from Adobe here. <<< Link updated!
- Unzip it, preferably to somewhere that you can navigate to easily via a command prompt.
- Type “cmd” (without quotes) into the Start Menu search bar, do NOT press enter, then right click on the cmd.exe icon and select “Run as administrator”.
- Navigate to the directory where you extracted the update, and type this:
msiexec /update patchpackage.msp
- Press enter, and follow the update prompts.
- You are now running Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.0.2, hopefully without the random crashes.
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ROOFIS
January 11, 2011looks interesting, Fortunately I upgraded to win 7 /64 bit about a year ago too, mainly for cpanel and php 5+ (Apache sometimes crashed on localhost with my old 386/32b.) I think in dreamweaver 8.0.2 they’ve fixed the potential sql xss exploit issues that were present in earlier versions, which I guess is a sound reason to upgrade as well. ;)
Peter
July 9, 2011I have installed the 8.02 patch successfully on Windows 7 and have not experienced any crashes till now.Hope it does not start crashing again.
Thank you for the guide.
Mike
December 27, 2011The download link doesn’t work anymore :(
Can someone please share the hotfix?
Regards
Mike
Jason
January 12, 2012http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/400/kb400150.html
Mahmudul
May 4, 2012Thanks. It works!! :)
Mary Easterling
June 18, 2012i have done the update patch to dw 8 in windows 7 home premium but am also told this clashes with groove in microsoft 2007. i wish they had an upgrade to this particular dw that runs in a 64 bit machine. i have yet to finally complete the sawmac tutorial for active pages… i cant afford to go to the cs versions. wish i couldve kept my old machine and run xppro in it. i even went to the trouble of buying a licence. drat!
mary e
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