Windows 7 and Fireworks CS3

Was anyone here able to run Fireworks CS3 flawlessly on
Windows 7? It has very strange behavior. I was able to get it run
for the first time after I have waited for more than hour to start
it. Then I activated it and was able to work with it without
problems. After restart it takes again forever to start. It looks
to me like there is no problem with fireworks but with some code
which is checking if the copy is legal and this is causing the
delay. I used FW very occasionally just to create some web
graphics, i bought FW8 and then i bought upgrade just to be able to
run it on windows vista. i really dont want to buy upgrade again to
use it on windows 7 just once a month. Any help appreciated.
update
Now it stopped working and I have got this message
Licensing for this product has stopped working.
You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the
problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or
contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for
help.

On Windows 7? That's a beta product. If you want to use
Windows 7 you can expect problems as the purpose of the beta test
is to
find problems. CS3 works well on Vista. If you need to work
productively, use a released product, not a beta.
That said, I had the same error on Vista a couple of weeks
ago. Something hung in Fireworks and not only would Fireworks not
start, none of my other CS3 apps (on Vista) would start. I got the
same error message in each. It is something in the licensing
product that Adobe uses. I searched Google for the text of the
error message and found a KB article that eventually got things
working.
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb401528
I had to run the utility all three times, and then keep on
going through the other steps of moving off file folders before my
apps started working again. It was frustrating for the to stop
working, like that, and I kept being disappointed at having to move
on to the next "if that didn't work, do this." But at least they're
working again!

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>I just bought a new desktop (Vista Home Premium, Pentium
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>2024
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> my
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I've read some of
> the
> posts related to this issue and was unsure of where to
begin trying to
> resolve
> this. I purchased the student edition and don't think
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as Patty said,
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>I created a web photo album with DW CS3 and FW CS3. I
want to add and
>delete
> some of the photos in the collection. So far, the only
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> able to
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all the correct
> pictures in the target folder. Is there an easier way?
>

Fireworks CS3 app is slow

I have now had to re-install Fireworks MX as this is the only
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I've tried Fireworks MX 2004, Fireworks 8 and Fireworks CS3
all 3 of which are painfully slow when swapping between
applications. I have to wait around 10 seconds for it to respond
before I can continue working.
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I'm running:
Dell Dimension 8400
Windows XP SP3
3.25GB of RAM
Radeon X800 SE video card
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numerous other things to no avail.
Any help much appreciated.

cmakin wrote:
> I have now had to re-install Fireworks MX as this is the
only Fireworks
> application that responds with any speed.
>
> I've tried Fireworks MX 2004, Fireworks 8 and Fireworks
CS3 all 3 of which are
> painfully slow when swapping between applications. I
have to wait around 10
> seconds for it to respond before I can continue working.
>
> I've trawled the web for a solution to no avail.
> I'm running:
> Dell Dimension 8400
> Windows XP SP3
> 3.25GB of RAM
> Radeon X800 SE video card
>
> Any other app in the CS3 range is fine, I've tried
disabling anti-virus,
> removing services, changing compatibility modes and
numerous other things to no
> avail.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
>
I'm on XP SP2 and don't find the app particularly slow. What
size files
are you working with?
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One focus
for the beta was to improve overall performance.
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I have downloaded both the Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS3
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any problems. Suddenly when starting up Fireworks (it starts to
load the program) then comes up with the following pop up message
box. "Your user privileges do not allow Fireworks to update your
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until Fireworks is launched while using Administrative privileges.
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and shut down.
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If you are unable/unwilling to allow the user to "run as administrator", there is another way.
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Add FULL rights on this registry key to "Everyone"
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That fixed the problem nicely for me.
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True.. it gives the user full access to that specific registry key, but that is at least much less dangerous than giving full access to the entire system.
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I installed
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Is Windows 64bit or 32bit?
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I have recently upgraded to Windows 7 Pro from Windows XP Pro. My Fireworks CS3 is having a problem. I cannot select items in the left side menu bar if I minimize or move the Fireworks CS3 window. If I have just opened the window it works, but minimize the window or move it and the toolbar stops working.
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We sure could use some help. This is one of my bread and butter programs.

I'm happy to hear you have other work-around alternatives!
Businesses with mission-critical software usually are very careful to research that their software will run on any proposed new system or that alternative software is available. This is the main reason that Microsoft had to continue supporting XP longer than they intended. Too much business-critical software ran on XP but did not run under Vista and would take some time before it would be upgraded to do so...if at all.
If you have "bread and butter" apps, then it was your responsibility to make sure that you could run them once you upgraded. Adobe's software worked more or less as advertised for the operating systems that were available at the time the versions were released. That's reasonable. Expecting indefinite support into the future is not.
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http://store.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/software/fireworks4/systemreqs.html
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http://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/faq/?anonymous_element_1=4
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http://www.adobe.com/support/fireworks/downloads_updaters.html
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... It is probably not a huge problem to fix for an Adobe engineer.
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Fireworks CS3 in Windows 7

Hi
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My photoshop CS2 is ok and other CS3 products are OK its just fireworks CS3. My old Firworks 8 was fine. I believe that it is something to do with the desktop composition as when I turn areo off, its perfect, but I need areo on.
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Thank you pixlor, your solution has worked for me.
Exact same experience, Fireworks worked great until I used any of the bitmap tools and then the cursor was slow slow slow.
Running Windows 7 64-bit with Aero Theme
Fireworks CS3
I didn't change the compatibility mode, I just checked Disable desktop composition.
Now when I start Fireworks, I can see the Aero theme is turned off (it takes a second, both monitors go black and then come back on).
A minor inconvenience, and it saves me from having to upgrade to CS4. Sorry, I really can't see why other people are complaining about this. I'm also running Chrome and it restored to the aero theme perfectly fine.
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Message was edited by: PDAJunkee - sorry fixed typo

Fireworks CS3 doesn't work in windows 7

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Fireworks CS3 - Internal error when save as JPEG and batch mode

Dears,
I am being in trouble for all along these 7 days due to this
error. I hope that someone may help me.
After upgrading to CS3 from Fireworks 8, I am having this
"internal error message" both when the preview for a JPEG export
format is chosen (it works OK when the export format is either GIF
or PNG) and when I work with batch operation.
Everything is OK if I run Fireworks either as "root" user or
as "adminplus" user ("adminplus" is the username of an extra user
with administration privileges I created for testing).
My operating system is MacOsX 10.5.4 and my computer is a
MacBook2,1 (MacBook with Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz with 2GB RAM and a
brand new 186,31 GB Hitachi Journaled HFS+ HD with 100GB free).
I tried in many way to get the valuable differences in the
Library files and privileges (looking to many forums, it seems this
may be the cause, also confirmed by the fact that other users works
fine) but I didn't get any special differences.
I tried to trash the preferences but still the error is
present.
I tried with the master temporary file in MacOsX with
terminal command "stat -x $TMPDIR" checked against command "id".
User and privileges were OK but still the "internal error" was
there.
I tried with a simple reinstall for Fireworks CS3 and with a
full reinstall of the full CS3 web standard suite and, moreover,
uninstalling and reinstalling everything.
I also tried with Fireworks 8 which was not removed by the
upgrade and it has the same problems.
May I receive a competent suggestion about how to diagnosis
and solve the problem?
Many thanks,
Carmine

OK. I solved it!
Whoever will have the same problem may ask how I solved. It
is not complicated but it is a long story. I succeed without any
reinstall of operating system as suggested by the ADOBE support, in
case any of the suggestions found everywhere, will give no result.
I will be happy to explain what to do to whoever will need
it.
My very best wishes,
Carmine

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particularly want to upgrade Dreamweaver to build decent websites
using Fireworks CS3. So has anyone imported Fireworks PNGs,
particularly of the sliced variety, into Dreamweaver 8? Any
problems?

princesspurple wrote:
> I own Dreamweaver 8 but not Fireworks 8, and I don't
particularly want to
> upgrade Dreamweaver to build decent websites using
Fireworks. So has anyone
> imported Fireworks PNGs, particularly of the sliced
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> 8? Any problems?
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Fireworks CS3 and Win 7

I just upgraded to Win7 and everything in Fireworks CS3 seems to be working except the brush tool. When trying to paint the cursor is irratic, moves slowing across the picture and I can't control the speed of the brush tool. Is anybody else having this problem and if so do you have a work around?

This was a problem in Vista and the workaround there is to turn off the Aero theme for Fireworks. (CS3 Bitmap tools and Aero are not happy together.)
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