Dreamweaver CS4 fails to start

Question

I have just installed dreamweaver CS4 onto my Vista Ultimate
laptop, the installation appeared to go fine, but when I try to run
DW CS4 I get the green spash screen, that disappears and then I get
nothing! It doesn't crash the computer, everything else still works
fine, just no DW.
A while ago I installed DW8, which did the same thing. So
bought the latest version from Adobe assuming that would fix it. I
uninstalled the previous Macromedia suite 8 before installing CS4.
I have uninstalled CS4, cleaned up totally with the CS4
Cleanup Utility. Removed a font the log file had marked as having
an error. Reinstalled everything and still have the same problem.
Any Ideas?

Answer 1

I guess I should be more precise. If I had the same problem
you are
encountering I would do a full search in CS4 folder for the
file
WinFileCache*.dat and delete it. You have nothing to loose.
Plus here is a post if you have an Acer computer
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=674&threadid =1391324&enterthread=y
And last it could be a conflit with another program, but the
video card
seems to be a good avenue, if all of the above failed try
disabling
everything that is not related to Vista operation with
MSConfig, and restart
dreamweaver. I know this should be done by Adobe tech
support, but hey.....
Still just rying to help
aka Frenchy ASP
"Alain St-Pierre" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Ok maybe you bought a collection and not just
dremweaver. But maybe my
> fix is still good. In the CS4 folder is there a folder
call configuration
> with the file I have mentionned before. If so try
deleting it anyway. If
> not then sorry. Will still look more.
>
> I am just waiting to get the trial version of CS4 master
collection when
> it comes out and will installed on my Vista test PC.
Then i hope having
> some kind of problem so I can start begin to
troubleshoot. Until now I
> will keep looking in others post to try and help.
>
> Doing my best aka Frenchy ASP
> "rucky544" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
quote:
>> It is a corrupted file called
WinFileCache-[random_numbers].dat. You
>> will
>> find this file on vista in
>>
>>
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver
9\Configuration.
>> Where 9 could be different depending on your
version.
>> Simply delete the file and restart Dreamweaver.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for looking into it Frenchy, but still no
good.
>>
>> I have looked in the adobe roaming folder, the only
dreamweaver folder
>> there
>> was the CS4 folder, so marked that up as old (after
I had uninstalled
>> it...
>> again)
>>
>> Also rolled back with a system restore to before
Studio 8 was installed.
>>
>> Unfotunatally I am still getting the same problem.
Windows gave me the
>> "useful" message the the program is not working!
>>
>> Any more ideas?
>>
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