Dreamweaver CS4 hangs on spash screen

Hi,
When booted in Safe Mode on XP, Dreamweaver CS4 works fine.
However opening Dreamweaver when booted in normal mode, causing it
to hang at the splash screen. Any idea on finding out what is
causing it to hang? Thanks.

justforgroups wrote:
> Once I disabled the firewall, all worked fine. I do not
have this problem with
> Firewall Plus with any other software. Firewall Plus is
the latest version as
> of writing: 5.0.0.36
>
> Hope this helps someone and I also hope Adobe look into
this problem.
This is a user-to-user forum, so your comments might help
someone who
runs into the same problem. However, to get it onto Adobe's
radar,
please submit a bug report using the following official form:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4",
"PHP Solutions" & "PHP Object-Oriented Solutions"
http://foundationphp.com/

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