Adobe states not to install windows 7 because, their products will not run and are not supported.

Anonymous
2009-10-09T03:54:47+00:00

Adobe software does in fact run in Windows7! Both CS4 and CS5 run very well in Windows7.

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Anonymous
2010-05-23T06:54:35+00:00

The answer is yes it does run! Adobe software will run in Windows 7 and that is true for cs4 and cs5 versions of the creative suite from Adobe.

If you have to remove the product you must deactivate the Adobe software first or you will not be allowed to re-install the Adobe software. Which happened on a drive failure for Adobe CS3 Photoshop and I was not allowed to re-install the software for 9 months and only on one computer. So be warned if you have a harddrive fail you may not be allowed to re-install the Adobe software on the replacement harddrive, because Adobe sees the new harddrive as a new computer. If you must remove the Adobe software for any reason you must deactivate it first!

Adobe software will run under windows 7! The new CS5 versions were designed for windows 7 and CS4 will run, but you will not get a performance boost with quad-core or higher processors. You do get the added performance with the New CS5 products.

On October 9, 2009 CS4 release was designed for both Windows XP and Vista on the pc side, because Windows 7 had not been released yet. Windows 7 has now been fully tested to work with Adobe products and it does work.

If you are having problems, I suggest you contact Adobe Support and insure you are using the lastest updates or patches from Adobe and Microsoft. Backup your work and run defrag.  If you are running Vista, I say upgrade to Windows 7 you will be glad you did. Vista is a bad operating system and the sooner you put it into the past the better.

Adobe Software does run in Windows 7! That goes for both CS4 and CS5! Adobe CS5 is one well written program and I am glad, I beta tested CS5 and upgraded to it. I have it running on several computers running Windows 7 and I am happy to report no issues with Adobe Software.

The original post was from my contact with Adobe support by phone. Windows 7 has been out for a year now and it has been tested by Adobe and they made several improvements and refinements to insure Adobe products run in Windows 7.

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Anonymous
2010-02-12T09:08:11+00:00

Hmm, now you say what you're mentioning above, where does Dreamweaver store it's "root" website files?  If it is in the root of the c: drive, surely that isn't best practice and is something adobe should address as the root of the file system is protected by default.  If it stores the websites in your my documents area (where they should be stored), then there isn't a problem....

Can you let us know where it is storing these website files (i.e. the entire file path)?

Cheers,

Justin Rodino

MVP: Windows Desktop Experience

http://www.227volts.com/

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-04-16T22:17:27+00:00

    I proposed something as an answer just a few minutes ago by mistake; I hit the wrong button.  My apologies.

    However, I might have an answer for this.

    I bought Adobe eLearning Suite a while ago and managed to get it installed on a Windows 7 laptop with great difficulty.  I got a workaround from Adobe tech support that worked for me.  Now I am trying to install it to my desktop, which is also Windows 7, and nothing works.  I can't find the workaround instructions, and phone calls to Adobe are a complete waste of time.

    In the meantime, I found an Adobe representative on Twitter that tells me with certainty that Adobe eLearning Suite works on Windows 7.  This is his direct message to me today: I hope you received my reply/RT to your question. If not, the answer is yes, eLearning Suite runs on Win7. Make sure you update CP4 w/patch.

    I don't know what CP4 w/patch is, and I'm awaiting his reply on that.  I also don't know how to get somebody at Adobe other than him to acknowledge this and walk me through the fix, so I'm still stuck.

    Maybe the power of our collective frustration can make something happen.  His name is rjacquez, so his Twitter address is @rjacquez.  If someone besides me puts enough pressure on him (he is, after all, an Adobe "evangelist"), maybe we can get this resolved.  My frustration with it is biblical.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-04-16T21:53:51+00:00

    I thought I did also...However, for the past three days, Adobe Reader 9.2 has been trying to install an update (have received several or more in the past year) and I keep getting Code 1402, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\OptionalComponents/MSFS. I have not been able to delete Adobe Reader, nor have I been able to change the key setting in regedit.

    Yes, I am using Windows 7, but as I said..no problems in the past.  Any advise?

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-04-08T16:04:54+00:00

    any chance that CS5 will work on Windows7? or should i just go back to Vista?

    p.s : the guys at Adobe were really stupid for this

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