Cold Fusion Studio in Windows 7

I thought this might be useful to some people, as I had this issue and spent hours trying to figure out a solution, and it seems several people posted in forums about something similar.
I had a windows 2000 machine at work for 8 years or so, and used CF Studio 5 as my editor, and loved using it. They finally upgraded my computer, giving me a new windows 7 machine. The problem was, when I tried installing CF Studio 5 (and 4.5), after installation, it would error out.
I tried downloading CF Builder and Eclipse, but both programs were missing features that CF Studio has that I liked using (Extended Find, easy to use snippetts, etc), so I was not happy, and searched online for a way to install my trusted CF Studio. Finally, I found a way.
Install CF Studio as normal, but instead of running the program normally
right click the executable, and select "Troubleshoot Compatibility"
Click the Troubleshoot Program option
Check the box stating "The program worked in earlier versions of Windows but won't install or run now
In my case, I chose Windows 2000
Start the program
CF Studio then worked great. The only issue is I couldn't pin it to the taskbar, but I'll take it.

Nothing against CF Studio 5, as I used it, myself, when it first came out.
But it's way overdue for being replaced. I've never tried CF Builder (and with what Adobe is asking for the price, I never will), and didn't like Eclipse. However, DreamWeaver CS3 and CS5 are both feature rich (including extended find and snippets), and work without extra effort in modern Windows environments.
And, remember, that just because Win7 has this "troubleshoot compatibility" mode does not guarantee that it will be in future releases, or that it will work with CF Studio 5 in the future.
Just food for thought.
^_^

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S_Allen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Our webmaster recently retired, leaving me in charge of
our intranet, which
> uses Cold Fusion. Now, I don't know much about CF, and
our System
> Administrator just asked me if I had any problem with
them running Cold Fusion
> 7 on a Windows Server 2003 box. It looks like they
should be compatible, based
> on what I've read, but I wanted to know if anyone has
experienced any pitfalls
> with this setup? I wanted an answer from someone "in the
know" before I gave
> my folks bad info!
>
> Thanks much!
>
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Source)
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jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:241)
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jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:527)
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I believe your MX Studio came with a developer edition of
CFMX 6.0. There are now several newer editions. Each is greatly
improved over the original CFMX (over 5 years old now). I would
recommend you uninstall CFMX6 and install the latest CFMX 7.02 at:
http://www.adobe.com/go/trycoldfusion
or at least install CFMX 6.1 updater 1. Both are available at the
same URL. The bottom dropdown is for CFMX 6.1. Each of the CFMX
installers allows you to choose between a trial version (enterprise
for 30 days, then developer) or a licensed version if you have a
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