My dreamweaver 2 websote is not compatible with my windows 7 computer.

Question

I am ulnable to make changes to mhy website becauseit was designed usilng dreamweaver  2. and my new computer has windows 7 .My old computer had windows xp but that computer no longer works.. I had no problem accessing dreamweaver 2 with windows xp
Every solution that I have heard about  is very expensive or very  hard to do.
So far, the solutions that have heard about  are:
1. hire someone to redesign my entire website using  a  much later edition of dreamweaver
2. take windows xp off my old computer  and install it on my new computer
3. Buy a widows xp  cd and install it on my new computer
3. Buy a windows xp computer and use it instead of my windows 7 computer
4 buy a windows xp computer and hook it and my windows 7 computer to the same monitor. The suggested techniques for doing this involve any of the following:
       A. get a vga signal splitter and reverse it using gender changer. or
      B.Best Buy suggested using a  KVM switch
I am non-technical and will have to hire all of this to be done. Cost is very important.

Answer 1

There are 2 things you could try.
The first (which is unlikely to work, but simple) is to try running Dreamweaver in "compatIbility mode". To do this, right click the shortcut to Dreamweaver, select 'Properties' and then on one of the tabs (I forget which) there should be the option "Run this program in compatibility mode for". Select Windows XP (doesn't matter which SP you choose) and then try starting it again.
The second thing you can do is use the new Windows 7 XP Mode. Basically this runs a virtual XP machine and gives you a (free) copy of Windows XP within Windows 7. You can get this from Microsoft here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
Once that is installed, install Dreamweaver on the XP it loads on your computer.
If either of these solutions aren't to your liking then either get a new Dreamweaver (which should have no problem reading your old site) or, as this is considerably expensive, consider an open source alternative (open source being free).
There are many alternatives available, Google "Dreamweaver open source alternative" for a selection, but one I've liked in the past is Bluefish:
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html
Although these options don't match the features of current versions of Dreamweaver, they are probably quite comparable to Dreamweaver 2 and most likely greatly surpass it (unless of course you're meaning Dreamweaver CS2).