Dreamweaver 8.0 Crashes on Windows Vista
June 1st, 2007 by Brian
(TROUBLESHOOTING) It has been reported that Dreamweaver 8.0 might crash or freeze on some Windows Vista systems while browsing for files. This is caused by Office 
Groove that bundled with Office 2007 Ultimiate. To resolve this, you simply need to uninstall MS Office Groove. According to Adobe’s website, this issue will be resolved in the next Dreamweaver release (Spring, 2007) since Dreamweaver 8 was released long before the debut of Windows Vista and Office 2007.
Here’s a complete instruction on how to uninstall Office Groove 2007 component within Windows Vista:
- Choose Start > Control Panel.
- Click “Pograms/Uninstall”.
- Select “Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007″.
- Click the Change button.
- When the Office setup wizard opens, select Add Or Remove Features.
- Click the drop-down menu next to Microsoft Office Groove and select Not Available.
- Proceed with the Groove uninstall.
- Done.
Other than this, I have not seen any issues running Dreamweaver 8.0 on the Vista machine. Hope Adobe listen to the customers and release a patch to fix this for those who does not want or need to upgrade to the future release of Dreamweaver.
Digg
del.icio.us
Google
Yahoo
Reddit
Furl
Bruce Says
Thanks for this been looking everywhere for a solution to this, it’s been driving me up the wall.
Apr 24th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Mike Says
Absolute star.. How the hell do people find these obscure solutions…but I’m gald they do!
Jun 29th, 2007 at 4:00 am
KH Says
Ummm.. I need Groove for my work. It;s how my virtual team communicates.
Maybe the solution is Just uninstall Dreamweaver and give up. I have been planning to update to CS3. But I am finding this, walk away we are not accountable for Cs2 at all attitude from Adobe to be rough.
I seriously am going to look at the new Microsoft tools, they support stuff for five years after it is off the shelf. Too bad Adobe doesn’t seem that committed to the customer.
Jul 20th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Josh Anderson - Optimize Youtube Video Says
I have the same issue…
Unfortunately GROOVE IS NOT THE PROBLEM.
I think that Adobe is just grasping at straws on this one.
I do not even have Groove installed and never have but Dreamweaver 8 still crashes when browsing for files on Vista Business operating system.
They are just throwing something out there to make it look like they are doing something…
They just do not want to patch Dreamweaver 8 and instead drive sales of CS3
Mar 28th, 2008 at 12:36 pm