"Dreamweaver not responding"

I just bought and installed Dreamweaver CS4 on my PC. It successfully installed, to my knowledge. When I went to start the program Microsoft Windows notified me "dreamweaver is not responding" and won't open; the circle "hourglass" continues to be there in limbo. Anyone else ever have this occur and anyone know what the problem may be?

I was actually very hopeful when I noticed that some specific to Acer bloatware was mentioned...
My situation however is apparently unique. I performed a factory reset over the weekend, removed all pre-installed Acer bloatware and windows components that I have no use for. After which I spent hours applying windows updates. Once that was done I re-installed CS5 Web Premium and Acrobat 9. With so much data being moved, I ran a full defrag being using any of the newly installed apps (since I am trying to improve DW's response times)
Does anyone have any idea why I am still encountering the issue even though eDataSecurity was completely uninstalled prior to throwing CS5 back on the machine??
Since this is an old thread, I'll recap the behavior...
I am modifying my application in code view (design view is useless since I use a server-side mvc framework). More often than not, changing anything within the file contents results in DW hanging up (eg: title bar reads "not responding") for 5-10 seconds before it will let me continue typing. Furthermore, it's not a processing lag since the text I was typing during this problem, did not "fly in" after DW started responding again.
I am at a loss, I was a notepad coder before using dreamweaver. After using it for well over a year, I have become dependent on the organization, features and interface. I am losing more time trying to fix DW than it would take to revert back to using notepad again. Any ideas? Please help

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Tom
[email protected]
[email protected]
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