Why Can I Not Change My Menus?

Question

I'm trying to alter my menus in dreeamweaver using the
menus.xml file as I was directed.
I can change it, rename it, delete it, break it, everything.
Nothing does ANYTHING to dreamweaver. Even with system restarts.
I've tried renaming the file to force dreamweaver to make a new
one, nothing works.
All I did was find a menu item that I could easily locate, I
choose the main menu bar. I choose File > Open Recent Reopen
documents on startup
I changed the NAME to "Open Recent Docccccuments On Startup"
Then I opened dreamweaver, no change. I reset. No change. I
deleted the file. No change. I replaced it. No change.
Whats going on!

Answer 1

Be sure that you are editing the menus.xml file (or any file)
in the
User Configuration folder, not the Application Configuration
folder.
There are 2 reason for this:
1. Files in the User config folder override files in the App
config
folder, and DW copies menus.xml to the User config folder by
default.
2. If you change the App config file, then it's harder (or
impossible)
to get back to the default configuration if things go
haywire. Always
copy to the User config folder and edit there. Then, simply
del;eting
the User config folder returns DW to the original state.
This TechNote explains the difference between the 2
Configuration folders:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_16420
HTH,
Randy
> I'm trying to alter my menus in dreeamweaver using the
menus.xml file as I was
> directed.
>
> I can change it, rename it, delete it, break it,
everything. Nothing does
> ANYTHING to dreamweaver.