Using Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows 8

Purchased Dreamweaver CS3 in 2008 - have upgraded computers to Windows 8 platform - how can I use the version I have?

Hi Edie,
Dreamweaver CS3 has not been tested and is incompatible with Windows 8

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Who uses Dreamweaver CS3 on Mac OS X?

Howdy,
I'm curious to know how many of you here use Dreamweaver CS3
on the Mac? Not bothered bout you Windows users, I've used it on
there and it's fine (although bulky and slow).
I made the switch to mac a long while back, and coming from
Windows and HomeSite (oh how much I love homesite!!!) the natural
move was to go to Dreamweaver. So I bought a retail copy (along
with PhotoShop CS3) for quite a bit of cash, and I don't use CS3 as
its pretty damn awful on OSX!
By the way, I NEVER touch the WYSIWYG part of Dreamweaver
(wish I could delete all WYSIWYG stuff from it, as that what slows
it down I'm sure)
To name a few bugs (I'd like to know if you experience these
too):
1. It's very slow and bulky, I mean just moving the cursor to
a new line in code view is slow, just doesn't feel good. It
actually feels like its about to crash on me any minute! And I'm on
a 6GB 8 cOre 2.8GHz Mac Pro... so its not my Mac :)
2. I set my toolbars up to my own preference (i.e. I like to
have the "Standard" menu showing and the "Document" one not) then
suddenly out of the blue "Standard" has gone and the "Document" one
is there. Sometimes I boot up and all is good, open a document and
it disappears (along with the line numbers on the left), right
clicking says its still there but it isn't.
3. Certain folders on the left file view REFUSE to close! I
collapse them, open another folder up (uncollapse) and what do you
know, the other folder pops open again. Close and open dreamweaver
its open again... I've never manged to close this particular
folder, dreamweaver really likes it for some reason?
There are plenty more, but they are the main ones!
The unfortunate thing is I cannot find a good alternative on
OS X for syntax highlighting, the fact that HTML elements are
coloured differently is invaluable to me, and thats one of the main
things I love bout Dreamweaver (not to mention the global replace
feature that other IDE's don't include)?
Bring HomeSite to OS X is what I say :)
What is your experience of DW CS3 on OS X? Does it all work
correclty for you? Or are you annoyed by it too?
ta

Ansel_Tk1 wrote:
> Next time i hear a mac dude extolling the virtues yada
yada I'm
going to tell
> him to cram it.
>
> Tongue in cheek of course :)
>
I plotted my escape from Microsoft for years before I finally
knew
enough about software and the technologies I was using and
had
sufficient money to make the leap. (I went for a top of the
line MacBook
Pro.)
On the negative side, I've learned that the Mac isn't a free
ride.
Upgrading to Leopard was a wrestling match, as was upgrading
to Adobe
Creative Suite (largely because certain sales people sold me
the wrong
upgrade package - twice). I'm also bothered by a number of
annoyances
that sometimes remind me of my Windows PC.
However, I'm working with a far greater variety of software
programs
than I ever had on my PC, and the annoyances seldom turn into
the minor
catastrophes that made life with M$ living Hell.
So far, Dreamweaver is working fine for me. The biggest
annoyance is the
fact that it likes to jump back and forth between "Spaces,"
though
Spaces remains my favorite Leopard feature.
I'm sorry you're having problems with yours - and I was
shocked to hear
that that Rosetta crap also applies to Dreamweaver. I'd never
heard of
Rosetta until I had some problems with my browsers. Enabling
Rosetta
fixed the problem, but, sheez - all that Rosetta business
sounds like
something that came straight from Bill Gates' living room. So
I'm not
sure if the problem ultimately rests with Adobe, Mac OS X or
both.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the situation to
advise you.
However, if you live near a sizeable Apple store, schedule an
appointment with their "Mac Geniuses." I've gone in to see
them at 7
a.m. a couple times - free of charge - and they were a big
help.
If you're using Leopard, I assume you've already installed
the two
updates - 10.5.1 and 10.5.2. Ironically, the second update
appeared to
create one of the very problems it's supposed to eliminate.
(Whether or
not it's actually a problem is a matter of debate in the Mac
community;
it hasn't actually caused any problems for me.)
You might also try posting some questions on Apple's forums -
http://discussions.apple.com.
If nothing works, and you do go back to M$, I certainly
wouldn't hold it
against you. If Apple and/or Adobe don't have their act
together, then
you can't blame people for returning to a platform that
works. However,
I have much greater confidence in both Apple and Adobe to fix
their
problems in the long run than I do in Microsoft. Even if you
get
Dreamweaver to work on your PC, will your other software
programs work?
In summary, I've learned that there's no free ride in
computing. But I
still prefer my Mac to M$, and I don't believe I've heard as
many
complaints about Dreamweaver on a Mac as I have about Vista.
But do
whatever's best for you.
> I have been using Dreamweaver on the PC for years, quite
happily too. I've gone
> through the switch and am now a Mac user as well. I have
installed CS3 on my
> MacBook Pro 2.4/4GB/10.5.2 with the expectation of
getting at least good
> performance with the (IMHO) premiere Web/DE App - but
no. CS3 is sluggish to
> say the least on my Mac, with performance of synching
files and
> opening/modifying page components at almost unusable
speeds. I have done the
> 'Open Using Rosetta' thing and it only made a slight
difference. So, I googled
> the issue and am AMAZED that this is a well known
problem with CS3 by various
> accounts posted out there.
>
> Really? Seriously? For all the design community on the
Mac and the large
> number of web designers using this piece of software
that this stands? Where is
> the fix from Adobe? It's not like this suite was just
released last month! Very
> sad (I can't stress how sad this is!) when I have to go
BACK to the PC for a
> smoother work environment to design web pages...
>

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i had earlier installed adobe dreamweaver cs3 on windows 7 my system got crashed, we have changed the hardware installed win 8.1 now dreamweaver is giving activation error exceeded activation limit please help

Hello,
what concerns your wish about an uinstaller, so you should use
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs3-product-downloads.html >>> AND note this "Read before you download a CS3 product". And esp, "You need your CS3 serial number to complete the installation" but this shouldn't be a problem for you, because you had an official version and so you can use all these informations like https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/find-serial-number.html
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Installing Dreamweaver CS3 with Windows Xp Sp2

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its the only one of the requirements I might not complete.
I have an AMD Athlon 2500+ processor with 1Gig of ram... the
last Dreamweaver runs smoothly.
Can someone tell me if this processor is P4 compatible, Xeon,
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If so, whats the problem with the installation, because it
begins but shuts down automatically.

quote:
Originally posted by:
JUANSEBORUCO
quote:
Originally posted by:
SnakEyez02
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Just like danglyfury said, it decompresses, then a progress
bar appears, and suddenly it disappears and that's it.
You guys aren't the only ones having problems. I'm having the
same exact problems myself. If you take a look at this forum
thread,
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?14@@.3bc3b755/57
they offer possible solutions for Photoshop CS3 - because the
installer is the same, the solution works for dreamweaver as well.
Unfortunately for me, I've tried all of their possible solutions,
no luck. It baffles me why Adobe would package all their new
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ColdFusion on a Mac is not supported:
http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf8_systemsupportmatrix.pdf
MS Access 2000, 2003, 2007 (Windows only)
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com
"Hotel C" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Using my MAC I'm trying to connect CF8 to an Microsoft
access database I
> build
> on a windows platform.
> When I try to set my source in CF administrator I'm not
getting a
> Microsoft
> Access Connection selection on the pull down. What am I
missing?
>
> C
>

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edited to add - i've tried simply dragging and "redocking"
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