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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2009-10-17T23:36:16+00:00

Dual booting wastes both harddrive space and time. Adobe software needs all the free space to crunch numbers with. The time wasted in booting into the right operating system can't be recovered.

The whole reason for this issue is this.; I had been using Cs3 photoshop and I had a harddrive failure. When reinstalling on the new drive, adobe thought it was a new computer and would not unlock the program. I went without the software for 9 months before adobe would unlock the software and they placed a limit to just one computer. Where everyone else gets two installs. I just can not afford that to happen again. So I wrote in asking for a procedure to prevent this issue from repeating. I was not happy with their reply of install the creative suite on any other operating system but windows 7 and so the story goes.

I wanted to gain the benefits from my cpu and 64-bit processing which windows 7 is promoting. So, I ordered the upgrades, because I am not happy with what vista can do for me. I think windows 7 is what vista should have been and windows 7 should be given as patch for those who suffered with vista!
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2009-10-17T23:39:23+00:00

in Compatibility mode you lose the benefits of memory usage that windows 7 brings. If adobe software can not run in windows 7 then why even bother to upgrade, if you must use it in backward compatibility?
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2009-10-29T01:59:06+00:00
I have eLearning Suite - another high priced product and can't install it on Windows 7 64bit. Also tried XPMode, the apps will install and run but not well. Captivate (which is used to record training content and demo's) will run but you can't record other application windows under XPMode. Plus it's a pain to save files to the Windows 7 host file system. You don't want your files stuck in the virtual machine file system.

Here are a couple of work arounds:
1. You can dual-boot windows 7 and XP. there are a lot of howto's out there. It's a pain though.
2. A more expensive route is to run XP and your Adobe apps on a separate computer. You can then use an RDP remote desktop session on the windows 7 machine to view and work with the XP machine. But you have to have two computers for this one.
Adobe certainly made a decision to not support windows 7 off the starting line and I'm sure they will just wait until ver 5 to do so, especially in the current financial market. Why would they give us a fix when they can force us to upgrade to the next version and spend another $600? They're not stupid but they ain't nice either.

tx,

the cleaner
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