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

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

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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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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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2009-10-29T19:26:19+00:00

I do want the adobe software on my newest computer. What I did was deactivate the adobe software before trying to move to windows 7. I tried both methods of installing windows 7. On my laptop I did the upgrade path and windows 7 overwrote the vista 32 operating system. Once the upgrade completed I reactivated the adobe software. Both companies had upgrades to download and install. After all that has been said about adobe software not being able to run. I found it does run in backward compatibility mode. In launching the adobe software the software reconfigurer in windows 7 was able to fix any issues and run the adobe software. There are a few screen glitches which force a close and reopening of the adobe software to correct the problems I have experienced in running adobe in windows 7. The main worry was having adobe see the reinstalling of adobe software as a new install and not unlocking the software. I avoided that by deactivating the software before trying to run any operating system upgrade of install.

On my 64-bit computer a clean install was required. Due to upgrading to windows 64-bit professional version. So it becomes very important to deactivate the adobe software before trying the install of windows 7 and having a complete backup of all your system. When the install was completed, I had to reinstall all the adobe software and run all the updates before attempting to launch the adobe software. Everything seems to run ok there are a few glitches that cause you to shutdown and restart the adobe software when you are working on a file and experience a screen problem. For the most part is runs fine in windows 7. Again the issue was not getting locked out from adobe software by adobe. Which has happened before with my CS3 products and a harddrive failure. I was unable to run adobe CS3 products for 9 months, before they would unlock the programs. This matter was compounded by adobe's support representative stating not to install adobe software on any system running windows 7.

The upgrading and clean installing of windows 7 was the smoothest Microsoft has produced thus far. Windows 7 cleared up many issues in both the computers I own. I also saw a performance boost on my 64-bit computer. My laptop had a DVD drive issue in vista that was resolved in windows 7. Both seem to run the adobe software just fine and even the plug-ins work. Any issues will most likely be address by patches or new releases in the coming months. I think adobe is waiting to see how many of their customers migrated to the new operating system before deciding to offer support. It was didn't help having adobe techn support scaring people not to install windows 7. My having the prior bad experence with adobe did not help either. Getting locked out of software that you purchased legally isn't right and all because a hardrive failure caused you have to reinstall.
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2009-10-29T18:36:43+00:00

I don't know what you are talking about. I've been running Adobe CS4 Premiere Pro in production mode on Win7 64-bit Release Copy for about 6 months without any major problems or issues and plan to install the released product later this week. It certainly beats the 64-bit VISTA!
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2009-10-29T03:07:26+00:00

Question - on the Adobe website it states that both CS3 & CS4 were tested & are working with windows 7 & on the windows 7 program compatability it shows the Adobe CS4 dreamweaver, etv as compatab;e - is this not true? I'm wondering because I too have spent $$ on CS4 design premium & last month bought a vista 64 laptop which constantly crashed (went into system repair & looped) - I was told by the Dell support that Adobe products don't run on windows only on Macs even though the windows vista compatability shows that CS4 is Vista 64 compatable & Adobe sells windows versions of their software - I ended up returning my laptop for a full refund & am now looking at buying a new machine but they all have windows 7 & if the adobe software won't run on windows 7 (or vista) the I guess I lost my money on the adobe software & will purchase a mac - anyone else having this kind of issues?
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