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So if you are experiencing this problem with Dreamweaver here’s a few good places to start troubleshooting:

I struggled with this problem for about a month. I found a lot of “solutions” but none of them worked for me. Boy was I frustrated.

I also contacted adobe support with no luck. Here’s the mail:

“This problem started about a month ago. Until then it worked just fine. When I try to start DW it loads just fine until “initializin files”. Then it just freezes and comes unresponsive. I have even tried uninstalling and reinstalling but the problem remains the same. I am totally lost. I have tried everything including this http://forums.adobe.com/thread/417116. No luck so far.”

Finally I found a solution. For me removing the “configuration” folder was not enough. I had to remove the “Sites” from Windows registry to get Dreamweaver working again. So here is what I did (Windows XP):

  1. Press Windows Button + R (Start menu -> Run)
  2. Type “regedit” and hit enter
  3. navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Common\10\Sites” and remove it and all of its contents (it will be recreated when you start DW again, but notice that all “Sites” data will be lost. No files will be deleted though.)
  4. Your done

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