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:

  1. Choose Start > Control Panel.
  2. Click “Pograms/Uninstall”.
  3. Select “Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007″.
  4. Click the Change button.
  5. When the Office setup wizard opens, select Add Or Remove Features.
  6. Click the drop-down menu next to Microsoft Office Groove and select Not Available.
  7. Proceed with the Groove uninstall.
  8. 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.

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  1. 19 Responses to “Dreamweaver 8.0 Crashes on Windows Vista”

  2. By Bruce on Apr 24, 2007 | Reply

    Thanks for this been looking everywhere for a solution to this, it’s been driving me up the wall.

  3. By Mike on Jun 29, 2007 | Reply

    Absolute star.. How the hell do people find these obscure solutions…but I’m gald they do!

  4. By KH on Jul 20, 2007 | Reply

    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.

  5. By Josh Anderson – Optimize Youtube Video on Mar 28, 2008 | Reply

    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

  6. By Mike on Jun 21, 2008 | Reply

    I use Dreamweaver CS3 on this XP machine and installed Office Groove a couple of days ago and my system randomly rebooted itself twice which has never happened before.

    I turned off the Groove three hours ago and no more crashes so far.

    I wasted hours trying to install Groove on my Vista laptop and gave up in the end.

  7. By Casper on Sep 3, 2008 | Reply

    I bought a machine with vista in august, and in the first week I uninstalled office 2007 (it was only a trial anyway) I installed office 2000 xp.There is no groove that I can see in the office programs list, but DW8 still crashes, so many time a day its impossible, I need it for work so ditching it as much as i love to, I can’t.It;s not the only program that crashes, but anything I use like extensions in dreamweaver, or fireworks, or illustrator, they all crash.Any more suggestions? Adobe get your shit together and fix this, its driving us all insane.

  8. By badri on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply

    wow !! what a solution how do u find it man????

  9. By webdesign on Oct 28, 2008 | Reply

    Nice thanks i was wondering why he did it! also disabling groove through msconfig works also. then you dont have to uninstall

  10. By Website laten maken on Nov 25, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks, great tip to disable groove. I use dreamweaver CS3.

  11. By Brett Davies on Dec 12, 2008 | Reply

    This is not really a problem, but puzzling none the less.
    I get a message when opening existing DW8 pages to edit stating “No errors occured.” !!?

  12. By terri yamaka on Feb 8, 2009 | Reply

    I’ve just got this problem of a Dreamweaver cs3 has shut itself down after I tried to insert flash or rollover image. Reading this make me realised, I’ve just install Microsoft Office 2007 a few days ago and I followed up your advise and it works!!
    Just want to know that I’m very grateful for your advise. I’m not genius on computer and every time the problem cropped up, I could just tear off my hair into pieces. Thanks once again.

  13. By wigwam on Mar 8, 2009 | Reply

    Thanks so much.

  14. By toad on May 2, 2009 | Reply

    Definitely seems to have resolved my crashing problem. You may not even realize you have Groove installed (I certainly didn’t), so do check for it using the steps described above. I don’t need to use it for collaboration, so I uninstalled, but it sounds like disabling it works, too. Great advice, thanks!

  15. By Jack on Sep 17, 2009 | Reply

    I have never had Groove or Office 2007 installed on my Vista OS.
    Dream Weaver 8 was working fine for a year.
    Now today Sep 18th,2009 It crashes
    every time I brows files.

  16. By dsizz on Sep 17, 2009 | Reply

    I h’v recently installed Dreamweaver 8, the installation process went ok but when i start the program it shows “Please reinstall your software”,”A problem was detected with your application,please reinstall this program to correct the problem ”
    right now i am using windows vista ultimate and also Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is already installed but i tried by removing Dreamweaver CS4,still the same scene.

    I am really strucked !!

  17. By hope mcknight on Oct 7, 2009 | Reply

    i would like for the windows vista pop up please stop? asap??????

  18. By Robert on Nov 4, 2009 | Reply

    Hi, hope somone can help, i have purchaced windows vista, home premium and ive reinstalled my deremweaver 8 software, and averything I click on seems to crash, somtimes doesnt, now ive taken some advice like uninstll this grove, but my system doesnt seem to have it on, im realy stuck Hope Hope somone can help me, resolve this, it seems to crash most when I’m making links.

    Thanks all.

    Rob

  19. By Norvin on Nov 5, 2009 | Reply

    please look into this matter…
    i’ve done tried lots of troubleshoting regarding dreamweaver 8, yet none of it works…
    even disabling the Groove doesn’t fix it.i tried to uninstall Microsoft Office FULL 2007, and it’s no use…..
    or was the FULL version?

  20. By Munobwa alexander on Feb 1, 2010 | Reply

    I have vista home premium 64 bit but still dreamweaver 8 crashes when I try to browse for files especially when saving even after unsinstalling Groove. I am too stressed; the machine itself hp-pavilion dv4 does not have XP drivers for most of its functions/components.
    Problem may not be Groove.

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