Dreamweaver CS3 crashes and won’t start up again

Hey kids, this is definitely one of the weirdest bugs I have ever clapped eyes on, so to speak.

Not for the first time, I was happily writing CSS and Dreamweaver CS3 crashed.

The crash

Something feels a little too familiar - this is DW after all - but I try to restart anyway: it’s 1am and I don’t need this. Nope, there it is, unequivocal and painfully blunt: Dreamweaver CS3 won’t start on Windows XP.

The following options were available:

  • Abuse someone at Adobe
  • Reinstall Dreamweaver
  • Try to clean out my config files so that Dreamweaver has to create new ones on restart (an old and occasionally successful solution)

After the jump: getting Dreamweaver up and running again