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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2009-10-09T04:45:33+00:00

These are just guides for you to look at.

How to troubleshoot a program that does not run as expected after it is installed on Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931362/en-us

Make older programs run in this version of Windows

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/bf416877-c83f-4476-a3da-8ec98dcf5f101033.mspx

Windows Vista Compatibility Center

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/Details.aspx

This might be a bit more promising if your machine is up to the task.

Windows 7 can run Virtual PC (XP Mode) and not only is the Virtual PC free but Microsoft throws in a free version of an Activated XP too.

Windows XP Mode will only run on Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate editions.

Download Windows Virtual PC RC and Windows XP Mode RC

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx

Easy Way to Determine If CPU Supports Windows 7 Virtual PC (XP Mode)

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/05/05/easy-way-to-determine-if-cpu-supports-windows-7-virtual-pc-xp-mode/

Which AMD CPUs Support XP Mode Virtualization?

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-cpu-windows-xp-mode,7739.html

Which Intel CPUs Support XP Mode Virtualization?

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-xp-mode-virtualization-intel,7709.html

If your machine is not suitable, or you have Windows 7 Home etc. you can still look at the ordinary Virtual PC 2007, as long as you have a spare legal copy of XP or Vista to run in Windows 7 via a Virtual Machine.

Virtual PC 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=04d26402-3199-48a3-afa2-2dc0b40a73b6&displaylang=en&tm
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Anonymous

2009-10-09T08:24:41+00:00

rt6west,

Do you have this in writing or did they say this on a tech support phone call? I've got quite a few Adobe programs running fine in W7 as I've been using W7 since its early days...Are there any programs you've tried that are terminating abnormally?

Justin Rodino MVP: Windows Desktop Experience http://www.227volts.com/
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Anonymous

2009-10-09T19:18:41+00:00

From your additional "Edit" this comment might require clarification? "Microsoft has a time limit for installing the pre-sales of windows 7 software"

Is that comment correct? It seems a bit suspect to me. Why would Microsoft offer a deal and then say you have to install this operating system by such a such date, it doesn't make sense. If the comment was correct what would happen in situations, we all face, where it is necessary to reinstall an operating system? Maybe you are being confused by expiry dates of Beta or Release Candidate versions of Windows 7?

Microsoft sets Windows 7 pricing, upgrade programs

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10272259-56.html?tag=mncol;txt
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